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Re: NeXT move ? Make A CD Image?

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From: Oliver Margraf
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 16:47
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In article <aabsvd$ouc$1@rs04.hrz.uni-essen.de>,
 phy070@power.uni-essen.de (H.-R. Oberhage) wrote:

> There is 'mkisofs' even under NS/OS - as well as Linux and many other
> operating systems -, so that on a running system you can make an iso-image.
> If the system understands the NS/OS BFFS - like on NS/OS itself -, you can
> just 'select' the files and 'combine' them to a '.iso'; this can also be
> done by mounting the CDs on a Linux system with the correct mount-
> incantation (-t ufs -o ufstype=nextstep-cd), as you pointed out.

That's a good proposal - mkiosfs for NeXT is available at peanuts, isn't 
it?

> 
> You'll end up with a single (large) file, that you can burn on any
> 'burning device' you can transport the file to (e.g. by 'Jaz', network
> or whatever) and the operating system of which is capable of burning
> a .iso (or raw-file). Is this what you meant?

This was exactly what I meant - sorry for not being precise :-).

> Or is '... make *.iso
> files from any devices?' something else to mean? Especially the 'any'?

Primarily I meant the filesystem but with 'any' more or less the devices 
(CD Drive, HD etc.) - but this doesn't matter when you can mount and 
read it. 

Oliver

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From: Oliver Margraf <om02@hdm-stuttgart.de>
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