Re: NeXTSTEP Release 3

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From: David Lemson
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 16:28

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yikes@netcom.com (Jenny Doll) writes:

>woo@ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) writes:
>>Now you say I need a floppy drive to read the floppy  
>>so I can read the CD-ROM!!

>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.
-- 
David Lemson                                                 (217) 244-1205
University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant  / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin
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Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP Release 3
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