Re: Mounting and more
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 01:40:02PM +0200, Per Lundberg wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
>
> > > 1) How do I mount a CD? I tried 'settrans /dev/hd1 /hurd/isofs /mnt' and
> > > stuff like that, but it doesn't seem to work..
> > hat does "doesn't seem to work" mean?
>
> Actually, it did work. By the way, how do I remove a translator?
settrans -fg /mnt
(force goaway. I am still ashamed I didn't see that you swapped mount poitn
and device ;)
> > The isofs translator has only rudimentary iso9660 support, and needs a lot
> > improvement. Maybe the CD was in another format?
>
> It was a regular RockRidge extensions format. But it seems to work just
> perfect now, with long filenames and stuff.
That's more than I expected... somehow my last tests didn't work so well.
Have to try it again!
> > That would be great!
>
> A first thing I was thinking of is ncftp. Has anybody tried this?
Not me. Maybe Brent.
> And yeah, another thing; apt-get doesn't seem to know it is running on a
> hurd-i386 architecture and therefore tries to download stuff from the
> wrong place.. is there a way to work around this? I'm at work now with a
> direct connection, so a working apt-get would be real niec.
apt-get works for you? Wow. Okay, I will try to update apt, now that we have
X and all...
> (Yes, my employee lets me play with the Hurd during work hours. It's
> called "personal evolution". :-)
Lucky you ;)
Marcus
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Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
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