cooper@plains.NoDak.edu (Jeff Cooper) (11/03/90)
Here's the replies that I got from everyone about the NeXTstation...
1) about booting off a floopy:
One person said, "No Way in Hell" and another said it might be possible
but he wasn't sure, and that I should check with my local NeXT rep.
2) about space free on the drives:
with the 105 meg drive there should be about 30-35 megs free, and
with a 340 meg drive you should have at least 85 megs free since
the whole distribution fits on one 256 meg OD. It was mentioned
that a lot of the extra space on the 105 was taken up by the swap
file.
3) about FTP sites:
I haven't checked out all these myself, but here are the ones
people sent me. cs.orst.edu seems to be the best one that I
looked at.
cs.orst.edu general
sonata.cc.purdue general (these two may be the same site
sonata.purdue.edu general but I was given them by two people)
aeneas.mit.edu GNU
princeton.edu music
sumex.stanford.edu Kip
cs.ubc.ca general
umd5.umd.edu general
ftphost.cac.washington.edu mail
ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu Mathematica
4) about 3rd party drives:
It seems that one should have very little problem adding a 3rd party
external drive. You would need a SCSI-I to SCSI-II cable and then
BuildDisk to figure out the geometry of the drive and format it
correctly. I believe that someone is collecting disktab entries
that people have figured out for various drives (I think he posted
an announcement to that effect on 11-1-90, but I can't remember who
it was, so you'll have to check back yourselves)
5) about modems:
Any external modem should work. You'll need the proper cable to
connect to the serial port, a Mac cable works. But some people have
made their own cables from pin-out diagrams.
6) about SLIP:
SLIP stands for Serial Line Interface Protocol. It is a serial line
connection to some host. You can do anything that you could do over
a normal connection (ie run X, ftp, telnet, etc...) but it's limited
in speed. It seems to be up in the air whether or not NeXT will be
supporting SLIP in v2.0. Some have said no they won't and others
have said that some people have implemented it anyhow, so I'm not
sure about it. There should be more information in the TCP/IP
documentation (check out a local archive site).
Well that's all the answers that got sent to me, I hope this helps
people out.
Jeff Cooper
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------asd@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth) (11/03/90)
In <6592@plains.NoDak.edu> cooper@plains.NoDak.edu (Jeff Cooper) writes: About anon ftp sites: > sonata.cc.purdue general (these two may be the same site > sonata.purdue.edu general but I was given them by two people) Actually, it's: sonata.cc.purdue.edu That should get you it. -k