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- From: m@crito.stanford.edu (M Carling)
- Subject: Re: boot from CD-ROM?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.161155.6930@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSO, Stanford University
- References: <keYfK8_00VpOMgfEV=@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 16:11:55 GMT
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- In article <keYfK8_00VpOMgfEV=@andrew.cmu.edu> jk8l+@andrew.cmu.edu
- (Jonathan W. Kimball) writes:
- > Perhaps this has already been answered, but is it possible to boot from
- > CD-ROM under 3.0? I've heard a little bit both ways. When I went to
- > the computer store here (where I would buy the CD-ROM), they said to ask
- > someone from NeXT. Anyway, I'm considering that as an option to a
- > bigger hard drive--leave all the system stuff on CD, and use the
- > internal hard drive as swap and local storage. Can it be done?
-
- If your ROM version is 3.0 or higher (generally Turbo or later hardware),
- you can boot directly from CD-ROM. If your ROM version is earlier than
- 3.0, you can boot indirectly from CD-ROM by means of a "kick-start"
- floppy. This is far to slow for the use proposed. It is only for software
- installation, crash recovery, etc. It is not an alternative to a
- sufficiently capacious hard drive.
-
- M Carling
- Director, Bay Area NeXT Group
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