Subject: Re: Can the NT CD be read under SunOS 4.1.1
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Date: 24 Jul 92 20:42:01 GMT
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In article l70hjjINN259@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM, silber@orfeo.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric Silber) writes:
>In article <1992Jul23.013920.674@vine.cp10.es.xerox.com> hamilton@vine.cp10.es.xerox.com (Bruce A. Hamilton) writes:
>>I haven't yet bought a CD-ROM drive for my PC, but I just ordered the NT CD-ROM. Will I be able to read it under SunOS 4.1.1b? Yes I have /pcfs in the kernel. If I can read it under SunOS, it will be easier to print the documentation on various high-sp
>>eed PostScript printers at work.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>--
>>--Bruce
>>BHamilton.LAX1B@Xerox.COM
>>310/333-3538
>
> Well, I don't think that having pcfs filesystem support in your kernel
> relates to being able to read the cdrom. The cdrom filesystem format
> that used to be standard was 'hsfs' (high sierra), now there is
> 'rockridge' which is (correct me if I am wrong) the common name for
> ISO9xxx (whatever the number is).
>
> I supsect that you WILL be able to read the NT CDROM on your 4.x
> SPARCSTATION, but you may need to recheck your kernel configuration
> for the support for the 'rockridge' filesystem type.
>
> (again note: the 'pcfs' filesystem type (the dos floppy format)
> IS NOT the filesystem type of the cdrom)
As you say,
The pcfs support is not relevant for this. In general ISO9660 disks are very
interchangeable with most (if not all) platforms. High sierra and ISO9660 are
basically the same thing....very minor differences.
Anyway, I have mounted the July 1992 Win NT SDK release on a SparcStation 2
under SunOS 4.1.1 using the command "mount -rt hsfs /dev/sr0 /cdrom"
or what ever path you want. Actually, I just noticed that the man page on
fstab says that "hsfs" supports both ISO9660 and high sierra.
This worked fine and I printed all ~3000 pages of NT documentation on our hearty