Subject: Re: Mounting the root fs rw
To: Simon Burge , Nick Moffitt <nick@zork.net>
From: Nick Moffitt <nick@zork.net>
List: port-pmax
Date: 10/13/1998 10:44:21
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 10:40:29AM -0700, Nick Moffitt wrote:
> ---Simon Burge wrote:
> > The kernel in the 1.3.2 release does include the cd9660 driver.  Can
> > you do something as simple as:
> > 
> > 	dd if=/dev/rz4c of=/some/file/name bs=512 count=2048
> > 
> > This should read the first megabyte off the CD.
> 
> 	And that it does.  I've got a megabyte file that looks a lot
> like raw cd data.  It shows that it's the NetBSD packages CD and
> everything.  
> 
> 	And yet, when I try 'mount_cd9660 /dev/rz4c /cdrom' it says
> 'mount_cd9660: : Invalid argument'.

	One more thing--I should note that I've tried two identical
CD-ROM drives (Both Toshiba XM drives).

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