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NFS mounted CDROM with HFV volume (linux)



Hi,

First I'd like to say how happy I am with my new purchase.
It is definitely money well spent (and ARDI even gracefully told me I had 
accidentally overpaid by $20...)

Now - 

I use a CDROM via an NFS mount.
The CD is actually mounted on my SPARC, and I access the CDROM by 
exporting it to Linux, so it looks just like a regular directory.

My problem is that I can see there is the HFV volume there on the CD,
but I can't access it.  It just looks like a regular file.
If I try to open it by double clicking on it, my text editor just coughs.

How do I access the HFV volume on the CD from Executor?

Also with regard to special users etc:

I wondered how I could allow a user to access executor under linux, but be
able to add or delete files without having to be Super User.

Should I create a special group or user?
Perhaps a special login, with a home directory that just does mac stuff?

Currently, I installed executor as root, but run it as a regular user, 
and it works fine except when I want to write to the area on my 
disk set aside for mac bits and pieces.  
I am not using a HFV volume for this - just regular EXT2 files.

What strategy have others put in place to allow transparent usage of executor
without having to be root everytime I want to remove or add a file?
A special account maybe? 

Finally, the SVGAlib version under linux does not work for me at all.
When I run it, the video mode changes to I don't know what and it is 
unrecoverable.

I get what looks like 4 screens on the display and it is in some unfathomable
video mode.  How do I restore my regular text mode after this accident?

A reboot was the only thing that fixed this problem.

Matter of fact - I tried the SVGAlib command "restoretextmode" and it 
crashed my system - froze it up completely. 
The silly SVGA game "abuse" works OK, but executor and other SVGA apps don't.

I am using kernel 1.2.13 and SVGAlib 1.2.27??
My display card is Trident TVGA9400cxi  - pretty standard stuff, that 
runs X well in 1024x768x256...

I can't find any decent documentation on SVGAlib anywhere, and no answers 
on USENET from people who have seen this problem before.

TIA

Rachel


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Rachel Polanskis                 Kingswood, Greater Western Sydney, Australia 
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