Subject: Re: Mounting CD in 1.4 [ and other things ]
To: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org>
List: port-pmax
Date: 05/27/1999 00:29:49
Todd Vierling wrote:

> On Wed, 26 May 1999, Simon Burge wrote:
> 
> : If you get out of sysinst and type:
> : 
> : 	# mount /dev/rz6c /mnt2
> 
> You probably want to use "mount -t cd9660 -r /dev/rz6c /mnt2".

Yeah, my bad...

> The problem on pmax is probably thanks to some sysinst Magical distinction
> between a "cd" device (which is cd9660 filesystem) and a hard disk (defaults
> to ffs filesystem).

The problem on pmax is that there is no "cd" device :-).  CD's show up
as "rz" devices as well as disks.  Other than that, there's no hidden
magic - sysinst I think still uses "cd0" as the default device on a pmax
(it's set in an MI bit of code), but if you tell it you're mounting a CD
ROM, it'll do the right thing.

Simon.