Subject: Re: Problems with mounting cdrom in NetBSD 1.4
To: Thomas Patterson <thomas@scottsburg.com>
From: Frank <frank@cfn.de>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/19/2000 16:32:37
Thomas Patterson wrote:
> 
> Hello, I recently install NetBSD 1.4 on a Pentium 233.  I've been having
> some trouble mounting my cdrom, when I go to mount it (using mount -t msdos
> /dev/cd0a /cdrom) I get an error of Mount_msdos: Mount: Invalid Argument.
> The media I am using is a cd from cheapbytes.com and can be booted from
> (which leads me to believe I am doing something wrong in my mounting
> syntax).  I have attempted to mount using -t fat, iso9660, fs9660, and vfat.

first of all:
you have to create the mountpoint /cdrom with:

mkdir /cdrom (be root for that)

then execute this:

mount cd_9660 /dev/cd0d /cdrom

Frank