Re: boot from CD-ROM?

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From: M Carling
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 16:11

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In article <keYfK8_00VpOMgfEV=@andrew.cmu.edu> 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?

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. This is far to slow for the use proposed. It is only for software  
installation, crash recovery, etc. It is not an alternative to a  
sufficiently capacious hard drive.

M Carling
Director, Bay Area NeXT Group
--
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