From e95d410b4996730d3acce436ca327787eb65a334 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Lucas Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 11:06:19 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] The "Creating and Using Optical Media" section does not say how to mount a CDROM? You have *got* to be kidding... Fixed, with content pulled from FAQ. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --- .../books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml | 33 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml index 9bf23b9eb9..1dfa3b3d98 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml @@ -908,6 +908,39 @@ scsibus1: audio tracks, controlling the speed, and other things. + + Using Data CDs + + Now that you have created a standard data CDROM, you + probably want to mount it and read the data on it. By + default, &man.mount.8; assumes that a filesystem is of type + ufs. If you try something like: + + &prompt.root; mount /dev/cd0c/mnt + + you will get a complaint about Incorrect super + block, and no mount. The CDROM is not a + UFS filesystem, so attempts to mount it + as such will fail. You just need to tell &man.mount.8; that + the filesystem is of type ISO9660, and + everything will work. You do this by specifying the + option &man.mount.8;. For + example, if you want to mount the CDROM device, + /dev/cd0c, under + /mnt, you would execute: + + &prompt.root; mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0c /mnt + + Note that your device name + (/dev/cd0c in this example) could be + different, depending on the interface your CDROM uses. Also, + the option just executes + &man.mount.cd9660.8;. The above example could be shortened + to: + +&prompt.root; mount_cd9660 /dev/cd0c /mnt + + Burning Raw Data CDs