kkw@wam.umd.edu (Katarina Kim Wong) (04/27/91)
Question: Is it possible to replace the 105 MB hard drive that comes with some NeXTstations with something bigger from a third-party vendor? It seems that one could save money by buying an 8/105 station, selling the 105 HD and then replacing it with something in the 400 MB range. Advice anyone? Katarina Kim Wong kkw@cscwam.umd.edu
auvhess@auvc6.tamu.edu (David K. Hess) (04/29/91)
In article <1991Apr27.161102.4582@wam.umd.edu> you write: |> Question: Is it possible to replace the 105 MB hard drive that comes with |> some NeXTstations with something bigger from a third-party vendor? It seems |> that one could save money by buying an 8/105 station, selling the 105 HD |> and then replacing it with something in the 400 MB range. |> Advice anyone? |> |> Katarina Kim Wong |> kkw@cscwam.umd.edu I'm curious why NeXT is not selling any diskless configurations in the university bookstore market. From looking through documentation and listening to news on the net it appears that these machines have the capability to run diskless via bootparamd, etc. It would be nice to have a diskless configuration available so that I could save my money on a third party drive. I could then boot diskless from a NeXTStation or Cube acting as a server, format the drive and copy an image of the complete file system from the server (assuming the server has a reasonably pristine OS installed). Alternatively I could more easily add the drive into a Cube and format/dup it there. Since buying a system gives you the right to the OS there should be no legal problems, right? Admittedly this scenario works best at a university where you have a number of NeXT machines around and hopefully willing owners. The advantage is I would not have to worry about an external drive in addition to an internal 105MB drive or about having to sell the 105MB drive as mentioned above. IMHO I would think this would actually help NeXT and make for a dirt cheap system (though you would have to get a drive from somewhere). They would not have to obtain drives, and install the OS before shipping. Just do a ROM level check of the mother board and drop it in a box. Any comments? Dave Hess Graduate Student Texas A&M University auvhess@auvsun1.tamu.edu