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- From: lou@flipper.Corp.Sun.COM ("Luis R. Ordorica")
- Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom,comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: Sharing a SunCD
- Message-ID: <1k2aufINN1d5@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 03:25:03 GMT
- References: <1993Jan18.232104.18703@athena.mit.edu> <1993Jan21.214528.1030@aisg.com>
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- In article <1993Jan21.214528.1030@aisg.com> tcurrey@aisg.com (Thomas E. Currey) writes:
- >> 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.
- >
- >
- >
- >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:
- >
- > Sun mounts the PC's CDROM to the directory /cdrom
- >
- > # mount -rt hsfs /dev/sr0 /cdrom
- >
- > Export /cdrom
- >
- > On the PC, do an NFS mount from the Sun to your I: drive.
- >
- > Everything should work fine then. Coral Draw worked
- >great.
-
- Also, be sure to include the '-ro' read only flag when you export the
- cdrom directory. Otherwise, the PC will be unable to mount it.
-
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