Ridiculously annoying CD-ROM problem which I'm surprised no one's addressed

[Natalia Portillo]

You need to drop a .ISO image on the PC side, that you can make with
readcd or dd in the linux side.

> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: mol-general-admin@lists.maconlinux.org 
> [mailto:mol-general-admin@lists.maconlinux.org] En nombre de J. Blank
> Enviado el: domingo, 20 de julio de 2003 15:07
> Para: mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
> Asunto: Ridiculously annoying CD-ROM problem which I'm 
> surprised no one's addressed
> 
> 
> I've only seen one other person reporting a similar problem, 
> and of course
> no one posted an answer (much less a solution)... muy muy frustrating.
> 
> As others HAVE noted, later versions of VPC (I've tested 5 
> and 6... both
> are b0rked, and I believe 4 is supposed to also be b0rked) do not work
> with Mac-on-Linux. VPC 3 DOES WORK... however, it doesn't 
> seem to support
> CD images (does it? I've tried. Hard.) and so you must use an actual
> CD-ROM drive (as MOL sees it, at least).
> 
> However, MOL doesn't seem to properly handle CD-ROM drives-- 
> they still
> are being internally seen as hard drives, no?-- and so VPC 
> DOES NOT SEE
> THE CD IN THE DRIVE...so very frustrating. Ridiculously so.
> 
> Please see the screenshot at http://jb.twu.net/oops.jpg and 
> you will see
> what I mean. There I am, with the Windows NT 4 WS install CD 
> in the drive,
> trying to install it (since Win98 is absolute shite), and though it's
> plainly being seen by MOL (I can read from it just fine-- see 
> the icon in
> the top right), VPC does not recognize it as a CD. (I am 
> using the CD-ROM
> drivers provided by Connectix themselves. Microsoft's drivers on the
> Windows NT 4 boot disk set ALSO DO NOT WORK, so please do not 
> tell me to
> try another driver on the PeeCee side. Two have failed in the 
> identical
> way. It is NOT the fault of VPC.)
> 
> Please, can someone help, or at the least give a simple and coherent
> explanation of why CD-ROM support seems b0rked in this case?
> 
> Also-- IS it possible, after all, to feed a CD image to VPC? 
> That is, can
> you drag a certain sort of file onto the little CD icon in the VPC
> taskbar, like you can with floppy images? I've tried making Disk Copy
> images and mounting them as CDs that way, but it won't work.. 
> the "button"
> won't depress like it will when you drag a floppy-sized image over the
> floppy "button" at the bottom.
> 
> Please help... please!
> 
> J e s s i c a    L e a h    B l a n k
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