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From: dastrout@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (root@next1)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Mounting the optical disk from a terminal other than console
Message-ID: <2050.26ba98ee@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
Date: 4 Aug 90 14:44:14 GMT
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> Do any of you NeXT gurus know how to mount the optical disk from a
> terminal other than the console?  I use the NeXT mostly from an
> ethernet link to a PC running telnet. 8-(  I would like to tell
> the NeXT to unmount the current opti disk and mount a second without
> having to using the menu options in the Browser.
> Thanks for any info,

Provided you have two optical drives, it's simple.  From the command line, as
root, say umount /dev/od0a to unmount the first disk, and mount /dev/od1a to
mount the second.  If you are having someone there switch disks for you, the
device would be /dev/od0a for both.  If yuo do not have root access, get your
sysadmin to write a 3 line C prog to do it, and to set that SUID with you as
owner.
-- 
Dave Strout
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