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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
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