27 Mar
2002
27 Mar
'02
4:26 a.m.
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 20:27:57 -0500
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
From: Jeff Hellige <jhellige(a)earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Unix disk images and archiving
Sender: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Reply-To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
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
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.