Unix disk images and archiving

From: Carl Lowenstein <cdl_at_proxima.ucsd.edu>
Date: Wed Mar 27 12:26:05 2002

> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 20:27:57 -0500
> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> From: Jeff Hellige <jhellige_at_earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: Unix disk images and archiving
> Sender: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> Reply-To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
>
> >As I recall from experience upgrading a Cube from a 68030 to a 68040
> >CPU board, NS 1.0a and earlier would not boot on the 68040. They were
> >written without knowledge of the future differences between a 68040 and
> >a 68030, which are significant at the system stack level. Just something
> >to think about.
>
> Will 2.X boot on an '040? I knew that 1.X and below won't
> work on the '040 but thought that it applied to 2.X as well. My main
> reason for wanting to archive all the OD distributions that I have is
> because it's quite easy to come up with a CD of 3.X but rarely do you
> ever hear about someone with the earlier versions and they need to be
> archived while there are still a few of the finicky optical drives
> still functioning.

When I got my 68040 Cube upgrade kit it came with a motherboard and an
OD of NeXTstep 2.0, and a NeXT SIMM-puller tool. And some instructions
about the sequence in which to change things. All this information is
coming out of my occasionally fallible memory. But I'm sure that I was
using NS 2.0 and 2.1 long before I had a CD reader.

    carl
Received on Wed Mar 27 2002 - 12:26:05 GMT