Bash & Mounting CD-ROM

[Jeff McWherter]

By no means am i a BSD expert but this may point you in the right 
direction


first: to mount the cdrom just do mount /cdrom that should work after 
most standard installs

Second: to switch to bash do a "vipw"  that will let you edit the passwd 
file.  It's all one word.  At the end point it to /usr/bin/bash....do a 
which bash first to make sure its installed.  If its not you will need 
to install it.  The ports tree works great.  do a locate on bash and it 
should be someplace like /usr/ports/shells/bash  or something like that. 
 when you get there do a "make ; make install; make clean " that will 
get it for you and install it for you, make sure your online when you do 
this.  

Lastly: BSD unix does not read it as /dev/hda* it reads it differnt. I 
dont remeber off hand what it reads ide drives as but it reads scsi as 
da**...there is two stars there. first one for the drive number and 
second one for the partion number. 

Good resources for freebsd can be found at www.freebsddiary.com.  Hope 
that helps some.

On Tue, 22 Aug 2000 09:30:42 Alex Morris wrote:
> I have recently installed FreeBSD.  However, I have two huge problems (plus 
> a whole slew of little ones).  First off, how the heck do I mount my CD-ROM 
> drive?  My best guess (which failed miserably) was to do: mount /dev/cd0a 
> /cdrom
> 
> Secondly, how do I switch root from csh to bash?  I have my non-priveledged 
> user running bash but cannot figure out how to switch root over.
> 
> Oh, and as long as I'm asking about mounting, where the heck did /dev/hd* 
> go?  I need to mount some FAT32 and NTFS5 partitions but don't have a clue 
> where to find them in my /dev list.
> 
> Lastly, where might I find a good resource for learing FreeBSD (freebsd.org 
> doesn't appear to exist...)?
> 
> Thanks,
> Alex
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