Mounting an EXT2FS CD on FreeBSD-5.1

[Brandon D. Valentine]

[ This probably should have been asked on -questions. ]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 12:14:19PM -0400, Satish Vanimisetti wrote:
> 
> I am trying to mount a CD burned with an EXT2 filesystem on
> a PC installed with FreeBSD-5.1
> 
>   # mount -t ext2fs /dev/acd0 /cdrom
>   ext2fs: /dev/acd0: No such file or directory

You're trying to mount the cdrom device itself, not a filesystem on the
cdrom.  You need to mount /dev/acd0c.

Brandon D. Valentine
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