trouble with mounting laptop cdrom
Marco S Hyman
> using mount_9660 as mentioned in a previous post,
> but that command is not on my present system.
Don't use mount_9660 (which is the wrong name, anyway). Do what the
mount man page tells you to do.
mount -t cd9660 -r /dev/cd0a /mnt
or whatever. If you insist on calling the version of mount used
for CD roms directly you can use /sbin/mount_cd9660 -- but why?
// marc
STeve Andre'
hard to miss when you're new to OpenBSD, and digging about trying to
find the command to mount CDs?
After seeing that, the excellent man pages clearly explain mount_cd9660.
No mention that 'mount -t cd9660 blah' is the preferred method is given.
Looking at the mount man page, I see mention of mount -t type, but it
doesn't give any indication that this is the preferred method of mounting,
either.
So I think it's easy to see why folks might use the mount_* variants.
--STeve Andre'
John F. Davis
I cannot mount a cdrom in my laptop's cdrom. I tried
using mount_9660 as mentioned in a previous post,
but that command is not on my present system.
toshiba 405
p75Mhz (old school)
ide cdrom which is used as /dev/hdc in linux
openbsd 2.6
John
Theo de Raadt
Someone want to mail in a diff to all of the mount_* manual pages,
that makes that more clear?
> Probably because 20% of /sbin are mount variants, which makes them
> hard to miss when you're new to OpenBSD, and digging about trying to
> find the command to mount CDs?
>
> After seeing that, the excellent man pages clearly explain mount_cd9660.
> No mention that 'mount -t cd9660 blah' is the preferred method is given.
>
> Looking at the mount man page, I see mention of mount -t type, but it
> doesn't give any indication that this is the preferred method of mounting,
> either.
>
> So I think it's easy to see why folks might use the mount_* variants.
>
> --STeve Andre'
>
> At 06:58 PM 10/5/00 -0700, Marco S Hyman wrote:
> > > I cannot mount a cdrom in my laptop's cdrom. I tried
> > > using mount_9660 as mentioned in a previous post,
> > > but that command is not on my present system.
> >
Dominik Rothert
> The manual pages should mention that mount -t is the preferred method.
> Someone want to mail in a diff to all of the mount_* manual pages,
> that makes that more clear?
*showup* Yes, this evening.
-Dominik
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