Re: a couple of newbie questions

Atom Powers ha scritto:
> 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.

FreeBSD's mount doesn't have any auto-detection features :/ The only way
to run a plain `mount` on filesystems different than UFS is having an
fstab entry matching the argument given to mount.

> 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.

Fully agree with that. If you want to learn FreeBSD, take the install
iso and start reading documentation.

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