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- From: gbs@kolob.mti.sgi.com (Greg Shippen)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.sys.mips,alt.cd-rom
- Subject: Re: CD-ROM ISO 9660 format...can my system deal with it?
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- Date: 8 Jan 93 02:51:46 GMT
- References: <C0Ez6A.LDE@dweomer.org>
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- In article <C0Ez6A.LDE@dweomer.org>, brian@dweomer.org (Brian Taylor) writes:
- > I'm interested in ordering the GNU CD-ROM that was just released, but
- > due to some articles in comp.sys.mips a while ago, I'm concerned that
- > my system (a MIPS MAGNUM 4000-PC50 running RISCos 5.0B) couldn't deal
- > with the format. Specifically, I read somewhere that the CD-ROM that
- > came with some (all?) MIPs systems is only for distributing their own
- > media and almost useless for other things.
- >
- > Can anyone confirm or deny this? Also, if anyone has any information
- > on incorporating an ISO-9660 filesystem into my kernel, that would also
- > be most appreciated (thus the Xpost to alt.cd-rom)!
- >
- > Thank you kindly,
- >
- > Brian
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- > N1E 2C1
-
-
- Well, it is true that RISC/os doesn't support ISO-9660 as Jay MaCauley
- indicated, but one possibility is to run your system under NT. The
- MAGNUM 4000-PC50 is supported on the NT CD-ROM and will read
- ISO-9660 format just fine. NT also supports most of the standard
- TCP/IP stuff so you could bring your system up in NT and rcp the stuff to
- another machine talking TCP/IP.
-
- The only cost here is a $69 CD from Microsoft (and some time and disk
- reorg). This assumes you have the conversion disk to convert the PROM
- to NT of course.
-
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