[geeks] basic IRIX network questions

[Kevin]

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Indeed, you have to compile in support for EFS and SGI
partition types.  I have tried this on three differant linux
boxen and was only able to make it work once (that was with
kernel 2.4.20). PITA to say the least.

/KRM

On 22 Jan 2003 23:34:21 -0500
Caleb Shay <caleb at webninja.com> wrote:

> It's there.  Just be careful.  Some kernels will panic if
> you try to mount an EFS CD.  I believe this is fixed in more
> recent kernels.  The simple workaround if you HAVE to read
> the CD from a Linux box is to dump the CD to a file and then
> mount it as loopback, ie:
> 
> dd if=/dev/cdrom of=myefscd
> mount -t efs -o loop,ro myefsd /mnt/cdrom
> 
> Caleb
> 
> On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 23:14, Simeon Johnston wrote:
> > Does Linux even support EFS?  Or would XFS work as well?
> > I know Linux supports XFS but I've never seen EFS support.
> >  I haven't 
> > looked for it though.
> > 
> > sim
> > 
> > On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 03:24 PM, Jonathan C.
> > Patschke wrote:
> > > You need an IRIX box to read the CDs (or Linux with EFS
> > > filesystem and SGI partition map support), but the
> > > actual server can be anything with a sane tftp and r*
> > > services.  IRIX is easiest, though, because everything's
> > > already configured for you in /etc/inetd.conf.  So, you
> > > can just comment-out the lines when you want the system
> > > to be more secure, and uncomment them when you want a
> > > boot server.
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> Caleb Shay <caleb at webninja.com>
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