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- From: milionis@shannon.ee.wits.ac.za (Taki Milionis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Upgrade from 1.0 to 3.0 - It worked ;-)
- Keywords: upgrade
- Message-ID: <milionis.722155920@shannon>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 06:52:00 GMT
- Organization: Electrical Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand
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- This is just a note to thank all those people who did e-mail me with help
- in upgrading 1.0 to 3.0 NextStep.
-
- My problem was, I did not have a stiffy drive and I had to use the OD to get
- the CD-ROM working. The solution has been posted before...
-
- \usr\lib\disk -B \usr\standalone\boot.cdrom \dev\rod0a
-
- will place the new boot blocks onto the OD which, when booted will allow the
- CD-ROM to boot.
-
- BEWARE however, I remembered too late that the -B option in the `disk'
- command does a BULK ERASE (AAARRRGGHH!) under version 1.0 NextStep. In this
- version, \usr\lib\disk -b \rod0a will move the \usr\standalone\boot onto
- the boot block. I have seen mention of this problem before but I think it
- should be FAQ.
- Never before has RTFM meant so much to me (about 2 weeks ;-)). I must
- have diagnosed every other potential problem on my NeXT but this one!
-
- Cheers,
-
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