I was trying to get a SCSI-IDE-CF working as I described in a separate thread:
https://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/index.php?topic=1616I have a Turbo Color slab with the ROM 3.3v74 and an original OPENSTEP installation CD. However, I couldn't get the slab to boot from the CD. If I boot from the setup diskette, OPENSTEP successfully installs (from the same CD).
I've read that the ROM that I have allows booting from CDs, so it must be that the CD is not bootable. Can somebody confirm? Is it the same thing with the NEXTSTEP installation CD?
/pitz
NS and Openstep didn't come with bootable CD images. They used the floppy diskettes to start the bootloader process and get a basic system running before installing from CD.
Quote from: pitzI was trying to get a SCSI-IDE-CF working as I described in a separate thread: https://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/index.php?topic=1616
I have a Turbo Color slab with the ROM 3.3v74 and an original OPENSTEP installation CD. However, I couldn't get the slab to boot from the CD. If I boot from the setup diskette, OPENSTEP successfully installs (from the same CD).
I've read that the ROM that I have allows booting from CDs, so it must be that the CD is not bootable. Can somebody confirm? Is it the same thing with the NEXTSTEP installation CD?
/pitz
I've been able to boot a Cube and Slab directly from the NEXTSTEP 3.3 Installation CD, but not the OPENSTEP 4.2 CD. So I'm not sure that it's possible on NeXT hardware without a jump start from a floppy, etc.
yeah, I'm pretty sure I did a NS3.3 install straight from CD with no floppy mucking around at some point on my turbo color.