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- From: ede978e@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Robert D. Nicholson)
- Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP Release 3
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.222138.4457@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Organization: Monash University, Caulfield Campus
- References: <1992Sep2.122640.16046@ornl.gov> <1=ln3vr.yikes@netcom.com> <Bu0GGA.ApD@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <185h3aINN33m@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 22:21:38 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell) writes:
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- >In article <Bu0GGA.ApD@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) writes:
- >>yikes@netcom.com (Jenny Doll) writes:
- >>
- >>>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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- >I just tried to look at the 3.0 PR2 floppy to verify that a new kernel is being
- >installed from the floppy and panicked PR2 for the first time by simply
- >double-clicking on the .hidden file on the floppy :-( Now the floppy is
- >damaged so even running fsck manually won't repair it (something about bad
- >magic numbers in various cylinder groups, the same error I get when I try to
- >format a floppy with a NeXT file system. The same floppy formats fine using a
- >DOS or Mac file system, so this must be a PR2 bug.) I've panicked PR2 twice
- >just trying to repair this floppy, so I give up.
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- >For someone with the 3.0 release, can floppies be formatted with the NeXT file
- >system?
- >--
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- >Art Isbell Cubic Solutions
- >NeXT Registered Developer #745 NeXT software development and consulting
- >Email: isbell@cats.UCSC.EDU Voice: (408)335-1154
- >USmail: 95018-9442 Fax: (408)335-2515
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- All you need to boot the CD_ROM is a special boot block.
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