Nextstep 3.3 (x86 floppy boot disk) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

26 Aug 2003

On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Owen Robertson wrote:
...
  on 10/3/02 12:30 AM, Lawrence Walker at
lgwalker(a)mts.net wrote: 
...
   Actually there
are Intel "white" Next's. Doubtfull they would be Pentium
 based tho. 
 I have a NeXTstep 3.x CD that says it contains the black and white (NeXT and
...
  Intel) versions of the OS. So by 'Intel' does
it mean PCs, or specialized
 Intel based hardware? I always thought it meant that it would run on 486 and
...
  higher PCs, but I haven't been able to get it to
boot on any, which leads me
...
  to believe that it isn't for generic Intel
hardware. Or maybe I need a boot
 floppy which I don't have. 
It runs just fine on Pentium systems, at least with the subset of video
and network cards it supports.  Up until the end of 2000, DreamWork's
Animation used a variety of Dell Pentium systems, maybe even some PIIs,
for their pencil test stations.  In 2001, we moved to Linux/Intel based
system.

If you need a NEXTSTEP 3.3 boot floppy, I'll mail you an image which you
can use dd or rawrite.exe to put onto a 1.44MB floppy.

-brian.

Hello.

Is it possible to mail me this boot disk image (for booting NEXTSTEP 3.3 on a
PC).

Thanks.

frederic.wailly(a)wanadoo.fr