FreeBSD Handbook correction?

Benjamin Kaduk bjk at FreeBSD.org
Thu Mar 12 22:56:21 UTC 2015


On Wed, 11 Mar 2015, Nathan Rosenquist wrote:

> Potentially change:
>
>     /mnt/freebsd_install/usr/freebsd_dist/base.txz
>
> To:
>
>     /mnt/usr/freebsd-dist/base.txz

I believe you are correct; the change is committed in r46338.

> It is also worth noting that I didn't use the following command from the guide
> to mount the DVD:
>
> *|     mount -t cd9660 /dev/`mdconfig -f cdimage.iso` /mnt
> |*
>
>
> Instead, I stuck the DVD in the drive and mounted it like so:
>
>     mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /mnt
>
> I *believe* it might be the same difference, but I'm switching to FreeBSD
> after years of primarily using Linux, and wanted to mention it in case you
> couldn't reproduce my results.

They should behave identically, but thank you for the extra information.
It is a much nicer situation to be in than when someone omits something
they think shouldn't matter :)

-Ben


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