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- From: rjn@FC.HP.COM (Bob Niland)
- Subject: Re: CDROM connection to diskless node.
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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:16:07 GMT
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- Kalpit Desai P265 (kdesai@brtph490.NoSubdomain.NoDomain) wrote:
-
- > I have a HP 9000/425t (HPUX 8.0) (diskless) connected on the local net to
- > a file server. I attempted to connect a CDROM to my node. Unfortunately
- > my machine barfs stating that it can only connect the CDROM to a root
- > server and not my diskless node. Can someone help me and tell me what I
- > am doing wrong.
-
- You are not doing anything wrong. Cnodes only support local mounting of
- filesystem types "hfs" and "nfs". "cdfs" can only be mounted on rootservers
- and stand-alone nodes. There is no workaround available from HP, and I have
- no idea when this limitation will be lifted.
-
- > Is there any software that I can use to enable me to connect the CDROM
- > to my machine rather than the root server.
-
- Young Minds, Inc. has a package called "PFS" (Portable File System), that
- primarily provides RockRidge (Posix fs semantics on top of ISO 9660) support
- on various hosts. It also provides local-mount, case-folding and file-
- version-suppression for ISO 9600 CDs on HP systems. We loaned them a Series
- 400 machine recently, but I don't know if they have ported PFS to it, or if
- they are selling a PFS/400 yet. You might call and ask them.
-
- Young Minds, Inc.
- 1910 Orange Tree Lane
- Suite 300
- Redlands, CA 92374
- (714) 335-1350
- Director of Sales:
- Jacqueline Gillooly
-
-
- Regards, Hewlett-Packard
- Bob Niland Internet: rjn@FC.HP.COM 3404 East Harmony Road
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