Re: Newbie Questions


Subject: Re: Newbie Questions
From: Jason Jeremias (jason@penguinsolutions.com)
Date: Wed Dec 11 2002 - 16:36:33 AKST


The first line is mounting the cdrom device to the /mnt/cdrom directory

The second line is copying the files as you guessed.

-Jason

James Raynor wrote:

>Hi guys. Could someone tell me what I am doing with these commands?
>mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
>cp -R /mnt/cdrom/* /mnt/images/somedirectory
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>I can guess that the second line is copying the contents of the cd rom
>into the 'somedirectory'
>
>What is the first line doing? Thanks
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