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booting from an external HD

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From: Joe Christy
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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From: joe@gauss.msri.org (Joe Christy)
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Subject: booting from an external HD
Date: 19 Nov 1992 18:26:20 GMT
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Keywords: boot device external