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Article #1879booting from an external HD
From: Joe Christy
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:26
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:26
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After being disappointed upgrading my home machine to 3.0 and finding that I didn't have enough disc space, I ordered a 1.2 Gig external disc. What I'd like to do is install the entire 3.0 on the external drive, move my local trees over and reconfigure the internal drive as a swap partition. What is the best way to do this? Is there a NeXT sanctified way beyond the standard UNIX editing of /etc/rc, fstab, &c.? I imagine that I might have to boot from an OD while moving the root partition from internal to external; is there some other cleverer way that I haven't thought of? Joe Christy | Head of Mathematical Computing | Two wrongs joe@msri.org | Mathematical Sciences Research Institute | don't make a right, (510)643-6069 | 1000 Centennial Drive | but three lefts do **************| Berkeley, CA 94720 |********************
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!gauss.msri.org!joe From: joe@gauss.msri.org (Joe Christy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: booting from an external HD Date: 19 Nov 1992 18:26:20 GMT Organization: Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Lines: 13 Distribution: world Message-ID: <27539@dog.ee.lbl.gov> Reply-To: joe@msri.org NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.188.58 Keywords: boot device external