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- From: marcu@leland.Stanford.EDU (Marc Albert Ullman)
- Subject: Re: boot from CD-ROM?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.183737.23672@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- References: <keYfK8_00VpOMgfEV=@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Aug20.161155.6930@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 18:37:37 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug20.161155.6930@leland.Stanford.EDU> m@crito.stanford.edu (M Carling) writes:
- >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.
-
- Thus I repeat my question: Will NeXT make revised boot ROMs available to
- people with earlier (pre ROM ver 3.0) boot ROMs?
-
- --Marc
-