Re: FreeSBIE Digest, Vol 21, Issue 17

Kuma San ha scritto:
> Message: 4
> Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 21:58:50 +0100
> From: Matteo Riondato [email protected]
> 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. =)
> 
> how come?  Why would FreeSBIE already know what filesystems are mountable and a regular FreeBSD would not?

Well, in FreeSBIE 1.1 there's a startup script (to be ported still in
FreeSBIE 2) which searches readable partition and mount them on the fly.
It doesn't update the fstab file.

You can see with `mount` with no arguments which partitions are mounted
and where.

> Besides, who do *I* know what filesystems are mountable if I use FreeSBIE, in particular journalized filesystems which, I was told, FreeBSD/FreeSBIE cannot read?  Where can I get the /etc/fstab info in FreeSBIE
> 
> 
> 
>>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.
> 
> ok. why not? why would not a "mount" command followed by a /dev/something not be enough?

Two reasons:
1) there's no entries in fstab, as mentioned before
2) FreeBSD's mount doesn't auto-recognize partition type like Linux one
do when launched with -t auto. So you have at least to run `mount -t
cd9660 /dev/whatever /mnt/whatelse`. Or mount_cd9660, which is equivalent.

> One more question: can FreeSBIE be used with a dial-up connection?  Is there something like ppp-config/pon CLI/GUI app for dial-up with FreeSBIE?

There's no (semi)auto-configuration utility, if this is what you need.
There is FreeBSD's ppp utility, which you can configure editing
/etc/ppp/ppp.conf and run from a terminal. See this:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/userppp.html

and all the chapter about PPP on the FreeBSD handbook.

Bye,
Dario

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