Preface: Introduction & What's New?

What's New?

As of August 16th, 1996, I, Mike Frisch (mfrisch@saturn.tlug.org), have officially taken over the maintainance of the Sun CD-ROM FAQ. Since this is my first attempt at a real FAQ, you'll probably find things a little different than other FAQs. If there's anything you see that's out of the ordinary or just plain incorrect, please don't be afraid to email me and let me know. As of mid-September 1996, Martin Hargreaves is helping with the maintenance.

Thanks (originally by Kyle Downey)

Special thanks goes out to Jurgen Keil, Carl Mueller and Brent Byer. Mr. Keil works for TooLs GmBh, a company that provides a 3rd-party CD-ROM driver; he stands as the most-quoted source in this FAQ. Mr. Mueller and Mr. Byer both sent along their collections of articles to add to my own. Thanks to them an others, I had half a megabyte of information to turn into this FAQ.

I cited each source below and literally quoted to separate my own writing from that of others. Sometimes the technical explanation was sufficiently clear and concise that any rewrite would be pointless.

Finding This FAQ

I will post this FAQ on a regular basis (monthly) to the USENET newsgroup "comp.sys.sun.hardware" and see what I can do about getting it posted on rtfm.mit.edu. For the time being, if you wish the latest copy of the FAQ, please leave email me and I'll mail the latest version to you. I will eventually HTMLize this page and make it available on my web page as well as setup an automated mailer.

Contributions

If you have any information which you wish to contribute to the FAQ, please leave me email and I'll get it incorporated into the list.
Mike Frisch and Martin Hargreaves