🚀 go-pugleaf

Nicholas Floersch <bfloer@sover.net> wrote:
> Ok, so, this dd command, as quoted below will work perfectly? This has
> been tried? Are we sure that there is no need for, say, setting the
> blocksize (bs=..) parameter or anything? As I said, I do not have a burner
> to try this out with.

The blocksize is probably 2048 bytes.  That's why most NeXT systems require a
boot floppy (or floptical), since only the last ROM version could natively
boot from a device using 2048- rather than 512-byte sector size.

There is nothing unusual about the NeXT CD's; any standard duplicating
software (EZ-CD Creator, Toast, Nero) will work fine.  'dd' + 'burncd -fixate'
under FreeBSD should also work, though I haven't actually tried the latter.

> I also saw that someone wrote in after this message with an affirmative
> that using dd (gosh, what a useful program) will make the diskettes fine
> as well.

Yes.

[ ... ]
> Lastly, as I stated when I first posted about doing this, lets move the
> legality and copyright discussion to a different thread... maybe one named
> "flame me cuz' my views on copyright are different than yours" or
> something like that... :) Then everyone can argue about copyright and
> piracy like they always do and it will go nowhere, but it won't confuse
> this thread...

If whoever it is has NeXT hardware, I believe that he or she has the right to
NS 3.3 User due to Y2K remediation, and giving them a copy of the software
probably falls under "fair use".  That doesn't mean Developer, or WebObjects,
or EOF, of course.  Not that I am (or would pretend to be) a lawyer.

As for the rest of what you're saying, I haven't flamed anyone-- I'm just
calling things the way they are, not telling anyone what they should or
shouldn't do.  Sometimes people read more into what I'm saying than what was
actually said.

-Chuck

       Chuck Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | All your packets are belong to us.
       -------------+-------------------+-----------------------------------
       "The human race's favorite method for being in control of the facts
        is to ignore them."  -Celia Green