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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wupost!usc!rpi!newsserver.pixel.kodak.com!laidbak!tellab5!chinet!randy From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) Subject: cdroms on 386bsd Message-ID: <ByLI5p.81p@chinet.chi.il.us> Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 19:29:48 GMT Lines: 22 I have the Simtel-20, usenet sources, GNU, X11, etc CD-ROMS that Walnut Creek put out. At first, to access them from my svr4 UNIX, I ran SOSS on a spare pc, and NFS mounted the CDROM under UNIX. Very slow, and prone to crashing. I am now running OS/2 with NFS and mounting them that way. OS/2's NFS makes a 1200 baud modem seem fast. I am also running 386bsd on another pc. However, I cannot seem to mount, cat, dd, or anything a cdrom on it. I have a 1542b with a CHINON cdrom unit. 386bsd recognizes as0 when it boots. If I try to dd if=/dev/wd0a, it tells me that as0 has a CHINON cdrom attached as a read only disk, then returns. If I try to mount it via mount -t isofs /dev/as0a it says mount: input/output error. I cannot find any info in the man pages, or browsing thru the source. Can an ISO CDROM be mounted under 386bsd? If so, what magik is involved? Thanks for any info. -- I am created Shiva the Destroyer; Death, the shatterer of worlds! Who is this dog meat who stands before me now? That's the biz, sweetheart. Randy Suess randy@chinet.chi.il.us