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In article <1992Apr4.032400.8520@leland.Stanford.EDU> m@crito.Stanford.EDU (M  
Carling) writes:
> In article <1992Apr3.155031.13237@umiami.ir.miami.edu>  
> therbert@umiami.ir.miami.edu writes:
> > Can anyone give me advice on the following problem? -
> > 
> > I am likely to obtain an original cube with a broken OD but with
> > everything else probably working, including a printer.  I have
> > a 12MB color NeXTstation with a 400MB HD and a CDROM player, printer,  
> etc.
> > 
> > What is the least expensive way to get the old cube working so that
> > a student can use it?  Can it be run as a diskless station, connected
> > to the Color station via ethernet? (It will be less than 25 feet away
> > from the Color station.)
> 
> You could configure the color station to be a Netboot server. See the N&SA  
> manual. NeXT does not support Netbooting from a disk the capacity of which  
> is less than 660MB, but it works anyway, and you should be ok with just  
> one client. You would need to partition your 400MB disk.

You don't have to partition the disk.  I used a 330 cube as a netboot server  
with no partition.  No problem.

> 
> A better solution would be to get a hard disk for the cube. A 105MB disk  
> costs about $250.

Good idea, but use this a a swap drive only and continue to netboot.

Todd
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