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- From: ede978e@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Robert D. Nicholson)
- Subject: Re: boot from CD-ROM?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.175254.3220@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Organization: Monash University, Caulfield Campus
- References: <1992Aug20.183737.23672@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1992Aug21.162617.13381@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 17:52:54 GMT
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- sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford) writes:
-
- >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...)
-
- On this thread, I would like to make a proposal to NeXT.
-
- Many of us cube owners, don't have access to floppy drives although of course
- we still have fully functional OD's. Now most of us have old versions of the
- rom monitor and would probably have a bit of difficulty upgrading since we
- need that little boot program to enable us to upgrade.
-
- Would NeXT allow somebody , or even do it themselves, to put this program
- on the archives where we can get at it via modem.
-
- Thank you.
-
-