[tech] Burner vs. Diablo 2 (Re: [ucc] AGM Minutes)y

[David Manchester]

On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 08:20:30PM +0800, Nick Bannon wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 06:35:40PM +0800, David Manchester wrote:
> > A Sparc2, Solaris an cdrecord would do fine.
> > The club has a Sparc2 doing nothing ATM.
> 
> It'd work, but you'd need plenty of temporary space for building and
> rearranging CDs - a 4GB disc would do, but 9GB would be better. You'd
> definitely want Solaris 8 for the loopback mount support, but that'd
> run like a dog on a Sparc 2. Might be OK with enough RAM, if any
> graphical front-ends are run remotely on xterms.

Uhhh.... NFS?

Files on morwong, mkisofs, put ISO image onto SS2, burn CD.
You can do loopback with software from cdrecord's author on Solaris
previous to v8 & Sol8 won't run on a Sparc2.
> 
> > Or you could put it on one of the under-used SGIs.
> 
> Well, they've got zero free space, but Adrian was planning on improving
> that and doing a reinstall.

I could get enough IRIX with 4Dwm with some space for a CD image
onto a 2GB disk. I think so, anyway.

> > Linux, linux, linux, linux. tsk. 
> 
> The filesystem support is pretty handy for this sort of thing. 'Course
> one of the downsides is that if we use PC hardware to do it we'll be
> tempted to get IDE burners, which, even now, leave a bad taste.

Which filesystem?

> [...]
> > 2) "a must"? That bit should be put to committee. There aren't too many
> > legitimate reasons for a CD-burner in the UCC, so I don't see why the other
> > members should be financing easy w4r3z couriering for the current student
> > populous.
> 
> You're most untrusting - home directory backups and free software not
> good enough for you, eh? ::-)

I was waiting for that... when was the last time someone backed up their
home directory? Seriously?

> Anyway, I think a DVD burner would be a better value investment - just
> posted to ucc at ucc about that, but the technical banter can stay here.
> <grin>

I guess I better buy a DVD then.

> [...]
> > PS: if you want me to set it up, I'll install the OS and the apps on the
> > SS2 for you.
> 
> Sounds good.

I'll swing by and pick up mola one day.

D.
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