Patch for SUN Operating Systems to read ISO9660 standard CDROMs.

A patch must be applied to the SunOS 4.1.x and the Solaris 2.x operating systems (if your system manager has not already done so). The patch allows the operating system to see the ``record structured" files that reside on our ISO 9660 format CD-ROM discs, a capability that is not (but should be) supported by the Sun supplied ISO 9660 driver. The patch is really only a work around and does not provide "proper" access to these files. The files on the CD-ROMs that we produce have fixed, even-length records and that is why the patch works. SunSoft should fix their ISO 9660 driver to provide complete ISO 9660 support. The current patches are only supported with the SPARC (sun4, sun4c, sun4m) architecture. A patch does not currently exist for 68k (sun3) or x86 based Solaris systems.

To apply the patch under SunOS 4.1.x (Solaris 1.x) you need to do the following steps:

To apply the patch under Solaris 2.0 or 2.1, type:

To apply the patch under Solaris 2.2 through 2.6 versions


Brian McLean --- Last updated 7th August 1997
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