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- From: gcolello@biosphere.Stanford.EDU (Greg Colello)
- Subject: Re: 3.0 upgrade reformatting drive
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.201839.25063@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSO, Stanford University
- References: <1992Nov10.185302.32117@iitmax.iit.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 20:18:39 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov10.185302.32117@iitmax.iit.edu> vonb@iitmax.iit.edu
- (Robert Von Borstel) writes:
- > I would like to reinstall 3.0 on my internal drive in my slab.
- > Hope to see some performance improvement. I have the CDrom
- > drive also attached, but can someone tell me how I can do this.
- >
- > Seem to recall remembering something about being able to boot off
- > the cd-rom and then making the upgrade do a reformat or something
- > along those lines, but I have not had any success to date.
- >
- > Thanx.
- >
- >
- >
- > --
- > Robert Von Borstel . Internet:vonb@iitmax.iit.edu
- > Illinois Institute of Technology . NeXTmail:vonb@fred.iit.edu
- > Academic Computing Center (312) 567 5962
- > 10 West 31St Street Chicago, Ill 60616
-
- I did this also. It is explained clearly in the 3.0 Release Notes booklet
- pgs 11-14 that comes with the cd-rom release.
-
- For example I:
-
- 1. Powered down.
-
- 2. Powered up. Typed "command ~" after the "Testing System" message.
-
- 3. Inserted the floppy disk named "CD-ROM TOOLS" in the floppy drive.
-
- 4. Inserted the cd-rom in the cd-rom drive.
-
- 5. typed "bfd" at the Next> prompt in the ROM Monitor window. (the floppy
- tools find the cd-rom drive)
-
- 6. Answered prompts:
- "..this is complete install... you want?" 'y'
- "...install on which disk...?" 'sd0a'
- "...erase disk...? 'y'
- "...proceed...? 'y'
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------
- Greg Colello
- Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant Biology
- Stanford University
- gcolello@biosphere.stanford.edu
-