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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: Are SUN CDs still ufs or are the new ones ISO9660????
- Keywords: SUN CD ufs ISO9660
- Message-ID: <16605@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 02:18:08 GMT
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- Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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- >What Guy is trying to politely say, is that when you get SunOS on CD
- >from Sun, you get either RR format which you might not be able to
- >handle, or tar files which are a *bitch* to handle.
- >
- >However, SunOS CD's from Auspex come as a ufs disk. So if
- >you accidently zap one file, you can mount the disk and grab the one
- >file, rather than futzing with tar and other programs.
-
- Well, actually, I was thinking more of CDs from organizations *other*
- than vendors of machines that run SunOS, such as distribution media from
- software vendors, assorted "grab bag of free software" CD-ROMs, etc.;
- some of them may use ISO 9660 without Rock Ridge ("Be ready to attack
- Rock Ridge at noon tomorrow! Here's your badge."[*]), some of them may
- use ISO 9660 with Rock Ridge, some may use UFS, and some may use
- something else (although I suspect those who do CD-ROMs that they expect
- UNIX systems to read won't use, say, some Mac System format).
-
- [*] I had to check *all four* of the *Blazing Saddles* sampled sound
- files we have here to find a quote unlikely to be *too* Politically
- Incorrect....
-