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From: gregjohn
Subject: Live CD's invoking HDD- installed povray
Date: 14 May 2005 23:20:01
Message: <web.4286befa5ceac114fe8460780@news.povray.org>
I've got Debian linux installed and successfully installed povray and ran
test render.  I want to try out some speed tests among some various live
distros.

Some of the live distros aren't doing the best job of seeing my mnt's, my
hda's.   Any tricks for invoking povray when that is the case?


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From: Florian Brucker
Subject: Re: Live CD's invoking HDD- installed povray
Date: 15 May 2005 05:50:59
Message: <42871b83$1@news.povray.org>
> Some of the live distros aren't doing the best job of seeing my mnt's, my
> hda's.   Any tricks for invoking povray when that is the case?

Well, you can always mount your hdds yourself *and* specify the full
path when calling POV:

Say, you're normal root is hda3 with an ext3 file system, the POV-Ray
binary is in /usr/bin/povray and you've booted into a LiveCD.

As root:
# mkdir /mnt/hda3
# mount -t ext3 /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3

As user:
$ /mnt/hda3/usr/bin/povray yourscene.pov

Could be that you have to change the permissions on the /mnt/hda3
directory to allow a normal user to access it. Feel free to ask if you
got questions about how it works.


HTH,
Florian
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