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In article <C0Ez6A.LDE@dweomer.org>, brian@dweomer.org (Brian Taylor) writes:
> I'm interested in ordering the GNU CD-ROM that was just released, but
> due to some articles in comp.sys.mips a while ago, I'm concerned that
> my system (a MIPS MAGNUM 4000-PC50 running RISCos 5.0B) couldn't deal
> with the format. Specifically, I read somewhere that the CD-ROM that
> came with some (all?) MIPs systems is only for distributing their own
> media and almost useless for other things.
> 
> Can anyone confirm or deny this? Also, if anyone has any information
> on incorporating an ISO-9660 filesystem into my kernel, that would also
> be most appreciated (thus the Xpost to alt.cd-rom)!
> 
> Thank you kindly,
> 
> Brian
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Well, it is true that RISC/os doesn't support ISO-9660 as Jay MaCauley
indicated, but one possibility is to run your system under NT.  The 
MAGNUM 4000-PC50 is supported on the NT CD-ROM and will read 
ISO-9660 format just fine.  NT also supports most of the standard 
TCP/IP stuff so you could bring your system up in NT and rcp the stuff to 
another machine talking TCP/IP.

The only cost here is a $69 CD from Microsoft (and some time and disk
reorg).  This assumes you have the conversion disk to convert the PROM 
to NT of course.

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