Re: a couple of newbie questions

On 12/18/05, Kuma San <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>  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?

"mount" is actually a suite of programs, of which "mount_cd9660" is
one. When you run mount on a CD it /shoud/ auto detect the file system
and use the correct mount program. But it is often wise not to rely on
auto-detection features.

>  Many thanks in advance and kind regards,
>
>  KS
>
>

I don't think I would recommend FreeSBIE to learn FreeBSD. FreeSBIE is
somewhat specialized in it's implementation and doesn't necissarilly
act the same as a base FreeBSD system does.

If you have the hardware download FreeBSD 6.0 RELEASE and build a
system to experiment with. On the other hand, if you don't have extra
hardware, FreeSBIE is great.

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