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From: richter@nic.cerf.net (Adam J. Richter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 4.4BSD-alpha CDROM
Message-ID: <2306@nic.cerf.net>
Date: 10 Jul 92 18:41:24 GMT
Article-I.D.: nic.2306
References: <1992Jul9.140537.2208@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> <1992Jul10.024627.9909@servalan.servalan.com> <1992Jul10.154332.18687@gateway.novell.com>
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In article <1992Jul10.154332.18687@gateway.novell.com> terry@thisbe.npd.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert) writes:
>This has it's portability problems, but a SunOS UFS CD would be my first choice,
>given that Sun is distributing all it's software that way, and I think their
>drives are more prevalent.

	I believe that suns can read ISO9660 cd-roms and that the command
to mount SCSI device 0 on /cdrom, for example, is something like:

		mount -t hsfs -o ro /dev/sr0 /cdrom

	Pace Willison has written both an ISO9660 file system
for 386BSD and a file system for overcoming the byte-order
problem in mounting Sun UFS CD's from a 386.  The ISO9660 code
is more supported.

	I know that Pace's ISO9660 file system works.  I dropped
it into the Mach BSD-Net-2 unix emulator and now I use it quite
frequently.

	Therefore, I think that ISO9660 is the way to go.

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