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- From: tilley@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Richard Tilley)
- Subject: Re: CDPlayer and 2 drives tips
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- Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
- References: <1992Dec24.082517.28608@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 10:19:23 GMT
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- In <1992Dec24.082517.28608@athena.mit.edu> karuzis@wccf.mit.edu (GLENN HOLM) writes:
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- >after mucking with fstab on both drives, you manage to make both
- >unusable, and single-user mode mounts the internal as read-only.
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- The "remount" option of the "mount" command will help out here.
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- >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).
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- 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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- This space is not blank!
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