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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!pagesat!spssig.spss.com!uchinews!machine!chinet!randy From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: cdrom/nfs Message-ID: <ByMzpG.AnJ@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: 2 Dec 92 14:46:27 GMT Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX Lines: 20 Well, I thought I was all set. I finally got 386bsd to mount a cdrom and found it was 10-20 times faster in accessing it than using DOS or OS/2. (This is the Simtel-20 CDROM). However, I than tried using my sysvr4 (dell 2.1) system to mount the cdrom via nfs. No go. Acts as if there is no drive mounted. I can mount the other 386bsd drives, /, local (where the second scsi drive is mounted). Now I realize that the cdrom is not a unix file system, but is isofs. However, I can use nfs running under OS/2 or Novell 3.11 with the same cdrom mounted there and mount it with Dell. Just seems a shame to dedicate a machine to OS/2 just so users have access to the cdrom when I have such a nice, fast 386bsd system sitting around. Any ideas? -- 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