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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
- Organization: Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
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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
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