VMware tools won't install because no cdrom?

J

jbruyet

Hey all, I installed FreeBSD 9 amd64 as a virtual machine and I'm trying to install VMware tools without much luck. I've been Googling this and the instructions I've found say to mount the cd-rom:

Code: 
mount /cdrom

but that gives me an error:

Code: 
FreeNag# mount /cdrom
mount: /cdrom: unknown special file or file system

I looked in /dev and there is no cdrom. I did find a cd0 and an iso9660 so I tried mounting them but no joy. I even created a directory under /mnt and tried to mount them all under that directory but no joy. SO, once I start the install for VMware Tools how do I find the tar file?

Thanks,

Joe B
 
In FreeBSD 9.1, /dev/cd0 is the right one. There might be a /cdrom entry in /etc/fstab which just points to that.

To mount a CD, specify the filesystem:
# mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /mnt

But you should also know that there are VMware tools ports in the ports tree. I have not tried them lately, emulators/virtualbox-ose is more widely used with FreeBSD.
 
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