From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 15 14:39:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA17968 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 14:39:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.barrnet.net (mail.barrnet.net [131.119.246.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA17958 for ; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 14:39:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by mail.barrnet.net (8.7.5/MAIL-RELAY-LEN) with ESMTP id OAA28330 for ; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 14:39:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with ESMTP id WAA19384; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 22:35:52 +0100 (BST) To: Garrett Wollman cc: Bill Trost , questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: amd (and CD-ROM's) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 15 Jun 1996 12:26:46 EDT." <9606151626.AA24567@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 22:35:50 +0100 Message-ID: <19382.834874550@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Garrett Wollman wrote in message ID <9606151626.AA24567@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>: > Of course, what this really highlights is that `amd' needs to be > taught how to mount CD-ROMs... Shouldn't be too hard, but since I > don't have any I'd leave it to someone else. It should be tought how to mount any device as a non UFS or NFS filesystem, such as /dev/fd0 as MSDOS. There is no reason just to special case CD9660 devices. It would be nice to handle generic removable media actually, so you can run Iomega Zip & so on under AMD. Preferably without the bogosity of Solaris's ``vold'' :-( Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info