MS-DOS with PC-NFS

Using PC-NFS from Sun Microsystems Inc., you can mount any of the CD-ROM diskettes directly on your PC. The CD-ROM diskette will appear as a new MS-DOS drive, for example g:\

To use PC-NFS you must have a PC with direct Internet access, and you must purchase and install PC-NFS. For further information, contact:

Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Two Federal Street
Billerica MA 01821
voice: 1-800-872-4786
fax: (508) 671-0661

Install and configure PC-NFS as described in the installation manual.

Your file c:\nfs\hosts must include the Internet IP numbers of the host computers where the CD-ROMs are mounted. Any future changes in those IP numbers will be reflected in this WWW file.

The contents and NFS locations of the CD-ROM diskettes are subject to frequent change.

In addition, the NFS location

	cedr.lbl.gov:/data9/old/parep2/menu

of the CD-ROM menu system is subject to change. Its current location is included in the document you are now reading.

To mount (for example) disk1, disk73, and disk181, type the following:

Note: the following NFS locations are no longer current. For present locations, consult NFS locations of CDROMs.

	net use g: /d
	net use g: parep2.lbl.gov:/export/cdrom/cd037
	net use h: /d
	net use h: sdp2.berkeley.edu:/disk73
	net use i: /d
	net use i: bigsur.lbl.gov:/export/cdrom/cd043
	

Then you can access those three CD-ROM diskettes as MS-DOS drives g: and h: and i:

The same mechanism is used to mount the NFS file system which contains the CD-ROM menu system:

	net use e: /d
	net use f: /d
	net use e: cedr.lbl.gov:/data9/old/parep2/menu
	

Drive f: is reserved for use by the CD-ROM menu system.

PC-NFS can be configured (with nfsconf ) to cause selected NFS file systems to be automatically mounted on selected drives, each time the PC is rebooted. The NFS mount locations are stored in your file c:\nfs\drives.bat.

Your file c:\nfs\drives.bat must be modified (and the CD-ROMs remounted) whenever the NFS locations at the University of California are changed.

Please inform Deane Merrill (dwmerrill@lbl.gov) if you wish to be notified additionally by electronic mail, of changes in NFS locations.

If you are on the University of California Berkeley Campus, you may request PC/TCP assistance from:
Raphe Berry (raphe@ucdata.berkeley.edu)
Fred Gey (fcgey@lbl.gov)


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