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Date:      Mon, 21 Oct 1996 20:59:50 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        mcgovern@spoon.beta.com (Brian J. McGovern)
Subject:   Re: UFS to CD?
Message-ID:  <199610211859.UAA10377@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199610210245.WAA03953@spoon.beta.com> from "Brian J. McGovern" at "Oct 20, 96 10:45:53 pm"

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As Brian J. McGovern wrote:

> One last (more?) question... Is there a proceedure out there for 
> copying UFS (as compared to iso file systems) to CD. the wormcontrol
> man page shows a ISO format for a plasmon drive. A tutorial, or even
> something saying "this is how it should work" should be sufficient. thanks.

That's currently basically impossible since our UFS implementation
cannot cope with 2048-byte hard-sectored media like CD-ROMs are.

Other than this, it's as simple as vnconfig'ing a large file,
newfs'ing it, mounting the file system, and finally dump the file to
the CD-R.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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