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From: klee@imagen.com (Kanghoon Lee)
Subject: Re: mntdisk for *BSD
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Date:  2 Sep 94 17:49:14 GMT
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ljg@space.physics.uiowa.edu (Larry Granroth) writes:

>Is there a NetBSD/FreeBSD compatible utility like Mike Fuller's mntdisk
>(cdmount, dosmount, etc) for SPARC/SunOS?

>I'd like to find a convenience package to allow users to mount isofs
>cdroms and pcfs or ufs floppies without root privs.

>Thanks for any pointers.

>larry-granroth@uiowa.edu

There is a program, called usermount which allows users to mount CDROM's and
floppies.  I think the site is: ftp.csv.warwick.ac.uk.  I just grabbed it today
but I think with little modification, it can make it to work on NetBSD/FreeBSD.

Kang

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