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foobar:
Hi.
Just two questions:

I'm @ wet_chicken's place now,

 - I mv'd quake 1 to the linux box, but sqpro got a segmentation fault. It started like it should, but my assumation is that svgalib crashes when starting its graphical functions.
Can it be a problem with driving the Intel 82815 card ? It works on my bloody old p133 without an OpenGL graphical card, wich wet_chicken's graphical card does support.
 - Is it possible to 'mount' an external file system to your own local ?
So i want, it to mount ftp://ftp.nl.uu.net/pub/linux
to a local dir ... is it even possible ?

DC:
About 2: I strongly doubt that it's possible to mount an ftp site. You could ofcourse just FTP to it   . FTP isn't a filesystem btw.

You can mount remote filesystems though - that's were nfs is for. That is suppost to be extremely difficult (to get right, that is - I'm pretty sure the basics are not too hard) though, and I don't need it (and therefore never bothered to learn). You do need an NFS-server for this though.

voidmain:
Ahhhh, never say never in UNIX:

http://ftpfs.sourceforge.net/

I believe there are other file systems that can mount FTP directorys as a local file system as well.  They've been around for many years.

DC:
Ah. I stand corrected. My humble apologies.

Not that I said never.

[off-topic] Why the hell would ppl use FTP en-masse in a local LAN? That's sick!
(read the site if you're wondering what I'm talking about)
[/off-topic]

[ July 23, 2002: Message edited by: DC ]

voidmain:
Well I would imagine that if you have high speed access and wanted to mount up your closest Linux distribution mirror you could install apps right off of the FTP site without having to download them first.  Just an example...

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