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Re: 3.0 Distribution Media????

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From: Ralf E. Stranzenbach
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 23:25
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Hi,

>>>>> "Keith" == Keith Hawkins <keith@iscp.Bellcore.COM> writes:

    Keith> Am I correct in my fears if I believe that
    Keith> I cannot upgrade to NextStep 3.0 unless I have
    Keith> a CD-ROM Drive.  I have an '040 Cube with
    Keith> an optical disk drive and a floppy drive.
    Keith> I am assumming that CD-ROM and Read/Write Optical
    Keith> drives are two different mediums and that my
    Keith> Optical drive will not read the CD-ROM disks
    Keith> on which NS 3.0 is distributed.  True ??

That's right. Ask a good friend with a CD-Drive to help you or ask
BaNG (?) to give you a copy on OD.

Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/sd4a             594326  341586  193306    64%    /NeXTSTEP_3.0

A distribution using floppy-disks makes no sense (see below) because
this makes around  240 Disk. That makes $120 for media costs only !
That makes hours and hours filled with the interesting job of disk
swapping...

	- ralf
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From: ralf@reswi.en.open.de (Ralf E. Stranzenbach)
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Subject: Re: 3.0 Distribution Media????
Date: 27 Oct 1992 23:25:48 GMT
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