Re: How to properly mount a DVD-R/W drive and how to use it from the command line?

2005-10-06 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi all, Thanks for the excellent replies regarding this! Regarding the mounting: indeed I do have a proper /etc/fstab, so I'll use mount /cdrom then. Tnx for explaining about the need to mount it in ISO-9660 format, and that the 'ro' flag is correct after all. :) So, the remaining thing then

Re: How to properly mount a DVD-R/W drive and how to use it from the command line?

2005-10-06 Thread O. Hartmann
Olaf Greve wrote: Hi, This'll surely be a really novice question, but I'd like to get it right in one go, and RTFM-ing using Google somehow didn't produce uniform enough results for my likings. :) The situation: I just installed FreeBSD 5.4-Release AMD64 on my new machine (though the questi

Re: How to properly mount a DVD-R/W drive and how to use it from the command line?

2005-10-06 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Olaf Greve wrote: Hi, This'll surely be a really novice question, but I'd like to get it right in one go, and RTFM-ing using Google somehow didn't produce uniform enough results for my likings. :) The situation: I just installed FreeBSD 5.4-Release AMD64 on my new machin

Re: How to properly mount a DVD-R/W drive and how to use it from the command line?

2005-10-06 Thread Benjamin Lutz
Olaf Greve wrote: > [...] > Now, this is where the issue lies. When putting a CD-ROM in the drive, > and trying to access it through the /cdrom mountpoint I get an empty > directory listing (not correct) and when manually trying to do the > following: > mount /dev/acd0 /cdrom > I get the error (on

How to properly mount a DVD-R/W drive and how to use it from the command line?

2005-10-06 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi, This'll surely be a really novice question, but I'd like to get it right in one go, and RTFM-ing using Google somehow didn't produce uniform enough results for my likings. :) The situation: I just installed FreeBSD 5.4-Release AMD64 on my new machine (though the question is most likely n