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- From: m@crito.Stanford.EDU (M Carling)
- Subject: Re: Rebuilting the INTERNAL HD with 3.0
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.041146.26416@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSO, Stanford University
- References: <1992Jul30.204551.22591@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 04:11:46 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul30.204551.22591@eecs.nwu.edu> garyc@eecs.nwu.edu (Gary
- I. Chang) writes:
- > I don't get it! What's the difference between booting from a
- floppy
- > and a CD-ROM? There's no point that you can NOT perform low-level format
- when
- > boot from a CD-ROM other than from a Floppy...... To me , the CD-ROM is
- more
- > of a floppy drive reading those write-protected FDs with huge capacity.
- > Besides, what's the low-level format command and proper device name for
- the
- > internal HD?
-
- There is no provision to boot directly from the CD-ROM except to run
- BuildDisk as far as I am aware. In other words, you can't boot from the
- CD-ROM, mount your hard drive and poke around the file system. You can do
- this after booting from a floppy.
-
- If I remember correctly the UNIX command init is the one to use for
- low-level formatting. If not, I trust that a UNIX wizard will correct me.
- Most likely, your internal disk is /dev/sd0a, but make sure. You can see
- during boot what logical device name it gets assigned.
-
- M Carling
- Director, Bay Area NeXT Group
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