Subject: Re: a quick hello.. (CD mount)
To: Mark R. Nathan <mark@nathan.net>
From: Willem Brown <willem@brwn.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/30/2000 00:57:07
Hi,

	You will not see a /cdrom in dev. The / infront indicates that it
is at the root level of the file system. cd / and then type ls -l. If
you do
not see a cdrom entry then do a: mkdir /cdrom

	And then to mount it: mount /dev/cd1a /cdrom


"Mark R. Nathan" wrote:
> 
> On 5/29/00, Willem Brown wanted to tell me:
> >
> >       Do the /cdrom folder exist, and are you doing this from the root
> >account?
> >
> >       I can't get my cd to work, go figure.
> 
> /cdrom folder is not visible in the /dev folder.  I am doing this in
> the root account.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> PS:  when I do a mount /dev/cd1a/ /cdrom  I get no such file or directory.
> 
> did something get missed during the BSD install 1.4.2?
> 
> THanks
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