hi

[Robert J.Dunlop]

> I have installed FreeBSD 3.2
> and when i try and mount the cdrom drive
> it
> does not do anything
> 
> like in linux 
> 
> 
> mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
> 
> it just goes into a invalid command

Work out what the device name for your CD is.
One way is to grep the output of dmesg for lines with cd in them

On my system
% /sbin/dmesg | grep cd
cd0 at ncr0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0
cd0: <YAMAHA CRW2260 1.0e> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device 
cd0: 3.300MB/s transfers
cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present - tray closed

cd0: is the big clue that makes the device name /dev/cd0c the c partiton being
used for the whole device


Add a line like this to /etc/fstab if it isn't already there

/dev/cd0c		/cdrom		cd9660	ro,noauto	0	2


Make sure the empty directory /cdrom exists and then
# mount /cdrom


/cdrom is the "traditional" place for mounting the CD on FreeBSD and things
like the ports package expect to see it there.

HTH
-- 
	Bob Dunlop