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

[J. Blank]

I believe I've tried that... does this work with VPC3? Have you done this
yourself with VPC3? (Again, 3-- only 3, not 4 nor 5 nor certainly 6 ;) )
Just wanted to make sure before I bang my head against the wall for the
dozenth time ;)

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Natalia Portillo wrote:

> 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!
> >
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