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Article #21Re: 3.0 Distribution Media????
From: Ralf E. Stranzenbach
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 23:25
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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!teddy.sub.org!open.de!diffusor!open!germany!ruhr.de!horga!teddy!reswi!reswi!ralf From: ralf@reswi.en.open.de (Ralf E. Stranzenbach) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: 3.0 Distribution Media???? Date: 27 Oct 1992 23:25:48 GMT Organization: News Server fuer en.open.de Lines: 31 Message-ID: <RALF.92Oct28002548@jodokus.en.open.de> References: <1992Oct20.151500.17620@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.en.open.de In-reply-to: keith@iscp.Bellcore.COM's message of Tue, 20 Oct 92 15:15:00 GMT