Subject: Re: Problems with mounting cdrom in NetBSD 1.4
To: Frank Lingott <f.lingott@cfn.de>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/19/2000 18:11:20
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 04:32:37PM +0100, Frank wrote:
> 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

No, 'mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0d /cdrom'

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