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- From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP Release 3
- Message-ID: <Bu0GGA.ApD@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 16:28:43 GMT
- Article-I.D.: ux1.Bu0GGA.ApD
- References: <1992Sep1.141744.259@next.cambridge.ma.us> <1992Sep2.122640.16046@ornl.gov> <1=ln3vr.yikes@netcom.com>
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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- yikes@netcom.com (Jenny Doll) writes:
-
- >woo@ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) writes:
- >>Now you say I need a floppy drive to read the floppy
- >>so I can read the CD-ROM!!
-
- >All the floppy does (I think!) is boot from the CDROM, just to make it
- >easy for folks who don't want to Command~ and type the command themselves
- >I forget the syntax for booting off of the CDROM, but it's just the same
- >as any SCSI disk drive.
-
- I believe that people with ROM Monitors previous to v3.0 cannot boot
- from a CD-ROM drive with 2.x, they need the floppy to install the proper
- kernel so that they can boot from the CD-ROM.
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- David Lemson (217) 244-1205
- University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin
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