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Re: CDPlayer and 2 drives tips

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From: Richard Tilley
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 10:19
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In <1992Dec24.082517.28608@athena.mit.edu> karuzis@wccf.mit.edu (GLENN HOLM) writes:


>after mucking with fstab on both drives, you manage to make both
>unusable, and single-user mode mounts the internal as read-only.

The "remount" option of the "mount" command will help out here.

>here you open the NeXTSTEP 3.0 release notes and learn about
>booting (and reinitializing) from the CDRom.  Tucked away in 
>there is how to boot from a higher ID drive (and left out of the
>2.1 Sysadmin book). (and wish you had made that bootable floppy).

There is a need for an easier way to boot from an external that doesn't
have a SCSI id selector switch.
Having to say "bsd(1,0,0)"
AND "rootdev=sd1"
AND having to already have changed "fstab"
is 2 things too many.
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