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Article #749Re: boot from CD-ROM?
From: Sherwood Botsford
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 16:26
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 16:26
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Marc Albert Ullman writes > In article <1992Aug20.161155.6930@leland.Stanford.EDU> m@crito.stanford.edu (M Carling) writes: > >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. > > Thus I repeat my question: Will NeXT make revised boot ROMs available to > people with earlier (pre ROM ver 3.0) boot ROMs? > Why bother. How often do you need to boot off a CD. (Of couse if you don't have a floppy drive it could be a problem...)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!destroyer!ubc-cs!unixg.ubc.ca!kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca!news From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford) Subject: Re: boot from CD-ROM? Message-ID: <1992Aug21.162617.13381@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: fenris.space.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada References: <1992Aug20.183737.23672@leland.Stanford.EDU> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 16:26:17 GMT Lines: 19