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

[Natalia Portillo]

I think so, I did with VPC3, but my memory isn't perfect ;)

> -----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 15:17
> Para: mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
> Asunto: RE: Ridiculously annoying CD-ROM problem which I'm 
> surprised no one's addressed
> 
> 
> 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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