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From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer)
Subject: Re: can't mount a sunos4 cd disk using mcd0
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Date: 23 Jan 1995 18:17:07 UTC
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daves@interlog.com (David Shadoff) writes:

>SunOS CD-ROM's in the UFS format are *not* ISO-9660 compatible.  They are in a 
>so-called UFS format, which is apparently their idea of a UNIX file system, 
>but on a CD device (well, it could happen...).

>As far as I know (but I could be wrong), there is no support for this 
>filesystem type in FreeBSD to-date.

Modern SunOS CDs are in a multi partition format. The first partition IS
an ISO-9660 partition, with rockridge extensions. The rest of the
partitions are UFS and are used for booting. There may exist older SunOS
CDs that do not use this format, but since the poster didn't specify
which OS version he has, I wouldn't know.

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