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To: Joe NYC who wrote (69355)	1/29/2002 1:12:05 PM
From: pgerassi	Respond to of 275872

Dear Joe: In Linux, it is even simpler. Take an image of the CD using dd, place the image on a hard drive somewhere, use the file name as the argument to the loopback device (most Linux versions now allow implicitly use the loopback device if you give it a regular file) within the mount command. You can add it to your fstab file to automount that image every time you boot. Now your CD is accessed at Linux hard drive speeds (using the same spare memory disk cache that all linux filesystems use). You can also make the procedure into a script to do the same every time you insert a CD into a CDROM drive. With most CDROM drives nowadays, this doesn't take but a few minutes. Pete