a couple of newbie questions

Kuma San <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.freesbie
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

I am a long-time GNU/Linux user and I have just started with FreesSBIE
to learn FreeBSD. I really enjoy FreeSBIE, but I will need some
pointers from time to time and I hope that it is ok to ask this list
members for it.

Today, I have to really basic ones:

1) why is my /etc/fstab empty? Is there another file somewhere which would contain the same info?

2) why does one mount, for example, a CD by doing "mount_cd9660 /dev/cd1 /mnt/cdrom1" instead of the more simple "mount /dev/cd1 /mnt/cdrom1" does /dev/cd1 not already give the OS the info that its a cd9660 CD which is being mounted?

Also - more generally, is there some book/article/website which a
proficient GNU/Linux user who wants to explore FreeBSD should read?

Many thanks in advance and kind regards,

KS

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