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Hi, I have a pair of questions for sysadmin types.  Any hints or
clues would be very helpful.

First, I'm trying to install 3.0 on my station from handmade floppies
created using tar and split from a 3.0 optical disk mounted on another
machine (I am fully licensed for 3.0, but I didn't buy the CDROM drive
and there's no word on when 3.0 will be available in floppy format).
I know my NeXT well enough to do a good job getting all the important
files needed to boot the machine and run NeXTSTEP - at least I thought
so.  I tar-ed the new machs, the libs, the shlibs, the usr and bin
directories and created new device drivers using MAKEDEV (while booted
from a floppy) into the appropriate locations, wrote a new boot block
to the hard disk so it would boot the new mach, and then rebooted.
The machine came up in singleuser mode just fine, but when I tried to
start up the windowserver (by exiting singleuser mode) I got a mouse
cursor and nothing else.  The mouse cursor went away and then returned
periodically, along with a bit of disk action, but no windowserver.
Rebooting back up into NeXTSTEP 2.1 and looking at the private/adm
messages file gave me one clue.  The final line in the file before the
most recent booting messages was:

loginwindow: Cannot find windowserver port!

What does this mean I'm missing or doing wrong?  I think everything is
all there, but maybe I missed a file somewhere.  I'm pretty sure my
permissions are all set correctly and so on.


The second (and simpler) question I have is: Has anyone connected a
Sun brand CD-ROM drive to their NeXT and successfully used it to
install 3.0?  Are the drives compatible and the CD formats compatible?

Thanks for any help!

Shane