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In article <1992Jul30.204551.22591@eecs.nwu.edu> garyc@eecs.nwu.edu (Gary  
I. Chang) writes:
> 	I don't get it! What's the difference between booting from a  
floppy
> and a CD-ROM? There's no point that you can NOT perform low-level format  
when
> boot from a CD-ROM  other than from a Floppy...... To me , the CD-ROM is  
more
> of a floppy drive reading those write-protected FDs with huge capacity.
> Besides, what's the low-level format command and proper device name for  
the 
> internal HD?

There is no provision to boot directly from the CD-ROM except to run  
BuildDisk as far as I am aware. In other words, you can't boot from the  
CD-ROM, mount your hard drive and poke around the file system. You can do  
this after booting from a floppy.

If I remember correctly the UNIX command init is the one to use for  
low-level formatting. If not, I trust that a UNIX wizard will correct me.  
Most likely, your internal disk is /dev/sd0a, but make sure. You can see  
during boot what logical device name it gets assigned.

M Carling
Director, Bay Area NeXT Group
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