From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 8 16:52:36 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA20152 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 16:52:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA20147 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 16:52:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA29313; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 11:21:28 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id LAA03906; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 11:21:35 +1030 (CST) Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 11:21:35 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Anton Berezin Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Mounting IRIX EFS CD on FreeBSD machine? Message-ID: <19990109112134.E96705@freebie.lemis.com> References: <86ogo950sv.fsf@lion.plab.ku.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <86ogo950sv.fsf@lion.plab.ku.dk>; from Anton Berezin on Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 02:52:48PM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message