total newbee questions

[Nathan Kinkade]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 12:34:36AM -0400, kennon ward wrote:
> To All;
> 
> I just created the disk for FreeBSD and got my other laptop to boot up
> under FreeBSD.  I need some help in accessing the hard drive and the
> cdrom.  I tried to create a directory for the CDROM and the hdd1.
> Then tried to mount using those directories.  It did not access my
> hard drive or the cdrom.  The question is what do I need to do to gain
> access to these two drives?
> 
> Also does anyone out there have the source code and makefile for vi?
> That is the editor I have used on other Unix systems.  You may have
> guessed that I was not a root super user :-)
> 
> Thanks to all for your help.
> 
> Regards
> Kenn Ward
> kennonward at netgazers.net

Can you give some specific examples, like the actual commands you are
issuing and the actual error?  Are your disks being detected at boot?
You can check for them by greping the output of dmesg like so:

# dmesg | egrep "^ad|acd"

Also, you reference your disk as "hdd1", which is the Linux nomenclature
for secondary slave partition 1.  In FreeBSD it would be "ad3s1" and
your CDROM would be "acd(N)", depending on it actual physical location.

Nathan
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