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In article <1992Nov2.225840.31762@iitmax.iit.edu> thsscvc@iitmax.iit.edu (Chris Conley) writes:
>I received numerous requests to let people know if I was successful in
>upgrading my old '040 Cube by using the Optical disk and building it clean.
>
>Here's the results:  (Thanks to those who sent helpful advice)
>
>I ran UpGrade.app on the Cube which installed a new sdmach.  This allows
>the Cube to mount the CDROM drive.  I had a friend put my Upgrade.app
>on an optical and then copied to my Cube via the OD.
>
>Then reboot with the CDROM attached.  Then put in an initialized optical disk.
>
>The whole key is to get the right boot block onto your optical disk.  For
>some reason I ended running disk(8) in interactive mode and when it asked
>for a boot block I said:
>
>/NeXTSTEP_3.0/usr/standalone/boot.cdrom 
>
>This writes the boot.cdrom file from the 3.0CDROM (which should be available
>in the Workspace, i.e. mounted) onto your optical disk.  Then logout and get
>into the ROM monitor.  Here you just say bod, which tells the machine to boot
>from the optical.
>
>The new boot block tells the system to look at the CDROM.  The boot sequence 
>ends in a ROM monitor-like window telling you its ready to install 3.0
>essentials and that it will wipe your hard disk clean.  After several warnings
>and answering "yes" to "Are you sure?" it went chugging away for about 2hrs.
>
>At the end, I rebooted and installed extension packages via installer in 
>my new 3.0 environment.  :)  
>
>I guess I have nothing to compare it to, but it seems only slightly slower than
>before I upgraded.  I only have 8 megs of ram.  :(
>
>If you have any specific questions send them through e-mail, I'd be happy
>to help.  And apologies to the NeXT and Unix gurus out there if this post
>contains utterly obvious instructions.

I think you did it the hard way.  I just built a cube last night.  I
just set the CD-ROM to SCSI ID #0 and booted.  CDIS build came up and
everything worked just fine.

I have 2.5 (v66) ROMs in this cube (which aren't the newest)....


andrew
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