Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 11:21:35 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Anton Berezin <tobez@plab.ku.dk> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Mounting IRIX EFS CD on FreeBSD machine? Message-ID: <19990109112134.E96705@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <86ogo950sv.fsf@lion.plab.ku.dk>; from Anton Berezin on Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 02:52:48PM %2B0100 References: <86ogo950sv.fsf@lion.plab.ku.dk>
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On Friday, 8 January 1999 at 14:52:48 +0100, Anton Berezin wrote: > > We have an old SGI machine with IRIX 5.2. Recently we decided to use > the good photoprinter connected to that machine from our FreeBSD > machines and (more important) from our Win* machines (through Samba > and BSD server). > > The problem is that BSD-compatible printing system is not installed on > that Indy. There is of course a way to implement certain rsh-based > magic to teach samba to print on it. However, this is a long and > nasty way to do it, and we have several IRIX EFS CD's with lpd on one > of them. But SGI machine does not have a CD-ROM! It also does not > have C compiler installed (it's on those CDs, too), so a bunch of > other options is out of the question, too. :-( > > My question is - is it possible in some way to mount EFS CDs on > FreeBSD machine? No. If you have enough space on the IRIX machine, you could dd the complete CD image to a partition and mount it as EFS. That's about the only solution I can think of offhand. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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