Re: NeXTSTEP Release 3

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From: Art Isbell
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 17:13

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In article <Bu0GGA.ApD@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) writes:
>yikes@netcom.com (Jenny Doll) writes:
>
>>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.

I just tried to look at the 3.0 PR2 floppy to verify that a new kernel is being
installed from the floppy and panicked PR2 for the first time by simply
double-clicking on the .hidden file on the floppy :-(  Now the floppy is
damaged so even running fsck manually won't repair it (something about bad
magic numbers in various cylinder groups, the same error I get when I try to
format a floppy with a NeXT file system.  The same floppy formats fine using a
DOS or Mac file system, so this must be a PR2 bug.)  I've panicked PR2 twice
just trying to repair this floppy, so I give up.

For someone with the 3.0 release, can floppies be formatted with the NeXT file
system?
-- 

Art Isbell                                                      Cubic Solutions
NeXT Registered Developer #745         NeXT software development and consulting
Email: isbell@cats.UCSC.EDU                                Voice: (408)335-1154
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Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP Release 3
Date: 3 Sep 1992 17:13:14 GMT
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