Re: a couple of newbie questions

On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 10:48:35AM -0800, Kuma San wrote:
> 
>    1) why is my /etc/fstab empty?  Is there another file somewhere
>    which
>    would contain the same info?

Because FreeSBIE doesn't need it. =)
In a normal FreeBSD system, that file has the same meaning it has on a
Linux system

>    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?

No. 

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

The FreeBSD Handbook http://www.freebsd.org/handbook

Best Regards

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