I dug out my old next station... It called to me...
Anyway, I got a new-to-me SCSI hard drive from a friend...
Now I need to boot from an external CDROM to install my 3.0 nextstep OS.
I have a plextor scsi cdrom, don't think it's compatible.
Next comes back with:
No SCSI disk
After I do my
Bsd(1,0,0)
So where is the best place to get a compatible CDROM drive.
My old drive bit the dust last century.
if it's a non-turbo you need to boot the machine from a floppy. not sure if the available NS 3.3 bootdisk supports installing NS3.0 though..
http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Software/NEXTSTEP/Floppy_Images/
Also please make sure that you double-check the SCSI termination since I had all kinds of weirdness happening when the terminations was not correctly set. Both the internal drive and the external CD-ROM need to be terminated...
I might have 3.0 floppies somewhere, or perhaps they are 3.1.
I do have an image of the 3.0 moto bootfloppy if needed.
I didn't think about the internal drive termination.
I'll give that a whirl.
I have always been able to boot from the external cd rom with just a command (bsd(1,0,0) ) so I don't think/hope that has not changed.
again, thanks a lot!
Quote from: "dallastruax"I didn't think about the internal drive termination.
I'll give that a whirl.
I have always been able to boot from the external cd rom with just a command (bsd(1,0,0) ) so I don't think/hope that has not changed.
again, thanks a lot!
Yes any version of the Motorola boot floppy will start a NeXTSTEP 3.0 to Openstep 4.2 Motorola install! Terminate the CDrom drive set the internal scsi hard drive termination enabled to bus and drive also termination power jumper set, CDroms most work best at scsi id 6 and with 3.0 your best success is going to be with a 1Gb or less size scsi disk drive why because nothing existed at that time above 1Gb. 3.1 and 3.2 up to 2 gb and 3.3 4Gb where it makes 2 partitions. Best regards Rob Blessin