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- From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
- Subject: Re: boot from CD-ROM?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.162617.13381@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
- References: <1992Aug20.183737.23672@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 16:26:17 GMT
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- Marc Albert Ullman writes
- > 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?
- >
-
- Why bother. How often do you need to boot off a CD.
- (Of couse if you don't have a floppy drive it could be a
- problem...)
-