mahesh@caradhras.cc.nd.edu (Mahesh Subramanya) (02/03/91)
Well, I successfully manages to toast two of my NeXTstations. "No Problem", i thought. "There is this wonderful program called BuildDisk", i thought. "I'll netboot my NeXTStations off a cube, and reinstall the system on the disk using BuildDisk", i thought. WRRRONGGG!!!! To my horror, there is no BLD.105, or anything even remotely close to that in /etc! Naturalment, BuildDisk choked magnificiently since even with the utmost in vim, vigour, and magnesium, it is plenty difficult to stuff 371057KB on a 102400KB disk..... In short, it didna work. So, How exactly does one go about reinstalling the system on a 105 MB disk? This is really a pretty important question since I need to install systems on about 10 "virgin" Quantum 105s. Or, am i missing something incredibly glaringly totally obvious (lie an app called Build_105MB_Disk??? Wouldn't be the first time!!) Thanx for any responses... -- ************************************************************************ Mahesh Subramanya INTERNET: mahesh@caradhras.cc.nd.edu Senior Analyst Office of University Computing NeXT: mahesh@numenor.next.nd.edu University of Notre Dame Voice: (219) 239-5600 x6421 Notre Dame, IN 46556 ************************************************************************
lacsap@plethora.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais) (02/03/91)
In article Installing 2.0 on a 105MB disk??? mahesh@caradhras.cc.nd.edu (Mahesh Subramanya) of : Univ. of Notre Dame writes: "No Problem", i thought. "There is this wonderful program called BuildDisk", i thought. "I'll netboot my NeXTStations off a cube, and reinstall the system on the disk using BuildDisk", i thought. WRRRONGGG!!!! To my horror, there is no BLD.105, or anything even remotely close to that in /etc! ---- Yes you are right, there is no BLD.105, I have requested it, but no one at NeXT would commit to releasing it to me, MIT microcomputer center, MIT campus consultant, the regional reps.... you get the idea... So you could go to your "authorized" NeXT center and plead for help. Or if you are gutsy and "know what you are doing" write your own BLD script. Since I have not made a grocery list of what is on a 105 drive I can not supply you with one. It is doable and possible to make most things fit... pasc