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From: ech@cbnewsk.ATT.COM (ned.horvath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: A/UX V2.0 questions
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Date: 22 Mar 90 05:58:57 GMT
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One more, possibly moronic question: among others, A/UX is to be available
on CD-ROM.  Is that CD-ROM going to include a bootable A/UX partition, i.e.
will it be possible to boot off a sash disk, then use the CD-ROM as root?

Yes, of course, I'll need things like eschatology and swap on a writable
drive.  And I suppose it will STILL have to be an Apple drive, or the disk
utilities won't be able to help.  But most of that hundred-thousand-blocks
of A/UX can stay right on the CD-ROM.

Near that alternative is to have a minimal writable root, with archival
stuff (/lib, /bin, much of /usr) on the CD-ROM.  Unless A/UX has grown
a WHOLE lot since 1.1.1, you might even do it both ways and still have
room on the CD-ROM to put back all the gnu source :-)

=Ned Horvath=