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From: johnl@esegue.uucp (John Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Diskless NeXT's??
Message-ID: <1989Aug11.031408.10369@esegue.uucp>
Date: 11 Aug 89 03:14:08 GMT
References: <1989Aug8.192101.3060@ee.rochester.edu> <89222.100550UH2@PSUVM>
Reply-To: johnl@esegue.UUCP (John Levine)
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In article <1989Aug8.192101.3060@ee.rochester.edu>, jal@ee.rochester.edu (John Lefor) says:
>Thus the question - is it possible to defeat the optical disk for
>purposes of system boot without completely disabling the optical?

You can set up a NeXT to boot from the optical, from the SCSI, or from
the Ethernet.  It's a parameter you set by typing at the ROM monitor.  You
can if you want boot from the net even if you have an optical and a SCSI disk.
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