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From: Gary Capell gary@pgr...
Subject: [9fans] u9fs & iso9660
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 18:30:14 +1100

> It seems to me that if Linux is willing to serve
> /dev/cdrom as an image of the CD-ROM, then you should
> be able to run the Plan9 9660srv on the u9fs-mounted
> /dev/cdrom to get a filesystem that knows about _conform.map.

Yup.  At home, I've got a box with an ATAPI CDROM that '4-disk-Plan 9'
doesn't recognise properly, but Linux does.  I used Linux to copy the
CDROM image to the DOS partition, and then mounted that in Plan 9 via
dossrv, then 9660srv.  Phew.