pdills@mermaid.micro.umn.edu (Peter in Amiland) (05/29/91)
I know you will all be dissapointed when I say, that I have had NO problem installing A/UX 2.0 from CD. ;) I do however have a question: Does "anyone" know of a way to copy the contents of the CD onto other media such as my 210 Cobra or even to disk. I would very much like to be able to install without having to pull out "actualy borrow" a friend's CD-ROM drive everytime. I guess you could say, "backup" is the best word to use. There must be some Software, PD or other, that will copy "sector per sector" or some other method. The problem is ofcourse, that the MAC can only see the MAC partition. The Unix partition files can only be seen by a running Kernal. Any suggestions? Peter P.S. I also don't believe that the CD-ROM can be mounted under A/UX. pdills@ux.acs.umn.edu (Internet, immer/always) pdills@mermaid.micro.umn.edu (Internet, immer/always)
cruff@ncar.ucar.edu (Craig Ruff) (05/29/91)
In article <1991May29.003926.1660@cs.umn.edu> pdills@mermaid.micro.umn.edu (Peter in Amiland) writes: >P.S. I also don't believe that the CD-ROM can be mounted under A/UX. This is not true. I can mount and access the CD-ROM just like any other (read-only) disk partition. You shouldn't have any problem copying it to another drive or as a file within a file system. In fact, I've removed a bunch of stuff from my hard drive just because the CD-ROM can be used this way. The A/UX partition is slice 0. -- Craig Ruff NCAR cruff@ncar.ucar.edu (303) 497-1211 P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307
d88-jwa@byse.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) (05/29/91)
Does "anyone" know of a way to copy the contents of the CD onto other media
such as my 210 Cobra or even to disk. I would very much like to be able to
must be some Software, PD or other, that will copy "sector per sector" or
P.S. I also don't believe that the CD-ROM can be mounted under A/UX.
Pfui, to quote Donald Duck.
Let's say your CD has SCSI ID 3:
mount -o ro -r /dev/dsk/c3d0s0 /mnt
will mount the cdrom A/UX file system under A/UX. If you installed
everything OK, the MacOS partition will already be visible in the
Finder.
dd works great from this point on (or cpio, or your favourite UNIX
backup method)
Have you noticed how practical dd is from Mac OS floppies, to save
damaged floppies or just making for easy duplication ?
--
Jon W{tte
h+@nada.kth.se
- Speed !