FreeBSD Handbook correction?

Nathan Rosenquist freebsd at ratherlargerobot.com
Sat Mar 14 01:40:26 UTC 2015


Thanks Benjamin!

-Nathan

On 3/12/15 6:51 PM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> 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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