CDROM and data on it

[Lowell Gilbert]

"gs_stoller at juno.com" <gs_stoller at juno.com> writes:

> 	I am running FreeBSD 4.3 (see uname -a below) and I have only
> 	used the CDROM to install new versions of FreeBSD .  Now I
> 	want to use it for file storage.  What programs must I have to
> 	be able to read from and write to a CDROM ?  What is the
> 	structure of information on a CDROM ?  If it is a FreeBSD file
> 	system, how do I mount the device, or does mount -ing it cause
> 	it to be considered a file system and that isn't what I want?
> 	If I want to share a CDROM with MSDOS systems, how would I
> 	mount it (as an MSDOS file system)?  What about listing the
> 	files and directories (if any) on it?

Please read the documentation:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html

> 	Are the programs the same for  FreeBSD 6.0 ?

Yes.