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In article <1992Oct2.165502.1@evax12.eng.fsu.edu>  
schmidmeier@evax12.eng.fsu.edu writes:
> as my machine has a problem during the boot process (it used to
> be on ETHERNET and is still looking for it) which I cannot fix,
> I think about "Reinstalling NeXTSTEP Release 3 Essentials" as
> described on p.11-14 in the Release Notes.
> From what I understand, it will format my internal harddrive,
> (so I will put all my stuff on an external harddrive therefore )
> and install the "Essentials".
> 1. Has anybody done this successfully and can recommend doing it?
yes
> 2. What are the "Essentials", and esp. 
this is the core stuff minus the packages (developer literatur
.. those that are in the packages directory of the cdrom)
> 3. What files will I have to save on my external drive first ???
You have two options:
a) initialize the disk, load the essentials and load the packages.
you will need to back up all the files you have added to the
system
b) reload the essentials and packages on top of an existing system.
You will need to back up the contents of /private that are important
and then restore them.

a) is time consuming b) produces a system less efficient since
all the software that needs to load quickly are no longer located
close together (system fragmentation)

I have done both a and b

pasc