I have recently added a BlueSCSI device to my turbo color slab and I'm trying to get some software installed. For floppy-based installers, I've mounted the disk images via BlueSCIS's "SCSI floppy" mounter, but the software asks for Disk 2 (when I have, in this example, all 3 disks mounted in the BlueSCSI at the same time).
Cubes lacked floppy drives and (I feel sure) floppy interfaces. How did users of Cubes get by this using SCSI floppy drives out there? Is there a command line app that will trick the system into thinking a disk was changed?
I do have a 2.88MB floppy drive, but I am not wanting to have to write images out to disk before installing them. Any ideas? Thanks.
bp
The original '030 boards definitely lacked floppy connections but I think the '040 cubes had them at the top right:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NeXTcube_motherboard.jpgThere is a way to eject a magneto-optical disc at the ROM monitor but that is probably not what you want for several reasons :)
This thread (
https://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/index.php?topic=4868) suggests (as root or via sudo):
disk -e /dev/rfd0a
(making sure you validate that device is the correct one of course)... but I'm not sure if that would trigger a higher-level, "Workspace Manager" awareness of a disk change.
