Re: boot from CD-ROM?

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From: Eric Cafritz
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 01:12

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jk8l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jonathan W. Kimball) writes:

> Perhaps this has already been answered, but is it possible to boot from
> CD-ROM under 3.0?  I've heard a little bit both ways.  When I went to
> the computer store here (where I would buy the CD-ROM), they said to ask
> someone from NeXT.  Anyway, I'm considering that as an option to a
> bigger hard drive--leave all the system stuff on CD, and use the
> internal hard drive as swap and local storage.  Can it be done?
> Thanks.
> 
> Jon Kimball
> kimball+@cmu.edu


This is about the twentieth time someone has asked this question in
the last ten days.  Can't anyone answer it?

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From: eric%erix@uunet.uu.net (Eric Cafritz)
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Subject: Re: boot from CD-ROM?
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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 21:12:31 EDT
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