Q. How do I mount the CDROM from FreeBSD shell or command line?
A. You need to use mount command. The mount utility calls the mount(2) system call to prepare and graft a special device or the remote node (rhost:path) on to the file system tree at the point node. If either special or node are not provided, the appropriate information is taken from the fstab(5) file.
In most cases /etc/fstab lists your CDROM drive so all you have do is type the following command (login as the root):
# mount /cdrom
Now change directory to /cdrom to access the contains of CD / DVD:
# cd /cdromThe system maintains a list of currently mounted file systems. If no arguments are given to mount, this list is printed.
# ls
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For FreeBSD 8 (mine is 8.1-RC2)
1. Make sure /media/cdrom folder exists.
2. mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /media/cdrom