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- From: tcurrey@aisg.com (Thomas E. Currey)
- Subject: Re: Sharing a SunCD
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.214528.1030@aisg.com>
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- Reply-To: tcurrey@aisg.com (Thomas E. Currey)
- Organization: Accura Innovative Services Inc.
- References: <1993Jan18.232104.18703@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 21:45:28 GMT
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- > I currently have a SparcStation with an attached SunCD CD-ROM drive,
- > and an IBM-compatible laptop computer. Currently, almost all the CD's
- > I have are for PCs, and require PC specific software. I've tried
- > using the SUN DOS emulator, but MSCDEX was very unhappy (said it
- > wanted more memory, and things like HIMEM.SYS are too PC-specific
- > for the DOS emulator to work). Does anyone have any idea on how to
- > make the CD-ROM drive readable by the PC? I have heard something
- > along the lines of PC-NFS which would allow the laptop to share data
- > with the SUN; any specific information would be much appreciated.
-
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- Using PC-NFS or PCTCP or whatever NFS Protocol on the PC, You
- can mount a PC's CDROM over NFS onto you PC.
-
- I have a setup:
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- Sun mounts the PC's CDROM to the directory /cdrom
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- # mount -rt hsfs /dev/sr0 /cdrom
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- Export /cdrom
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- On the PC, do an NFS mount from the Sun to your I: drive.
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- Everything should work fine then. Coral Draw worked
- great.
-