Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!ucbvax!agate!shelby!msi.umn.edu!noc.MR.NET!gacvx2.gac.edu!gacvx2.gac.edu!scott From: scott@next-5.gac.edu (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: I found out how to backup to floppies Message-ID: Date: 4 Jan 91 18:07:47 GMT References: <25Z7u1w163w@questor.wimsey.bc.ca> Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College Lines: 23 Nntp-Posting-Host: next-5.gac.edu In-reply-to: lclarke@questor.wimsey.bc.ca's message of 3 Jan 91 10:56:36 GMTLines: 23 In article <25Z7u1w163w@questor.wimsey.bc.ca> lclarke@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Lawrence Clarke) writes: Get a pen folks ... Here's how you can backup the 105 MB Hard Disk on the new NeXTstation to 1.44 meg floppies Thanks for the info. Now, for the $1000 question: Anybody built a bootable 1.44M? Not having a NextStation easily availiable, I'm not in a position to try :-). At minimum, I'd expect mach, and a couple other things (vi, sh, restore ( :-]), parts of /etc, more of /bin, I hope). There are obvious needs for something like this (else, what good does the backup do?). I assume that the 2.0 on floppies has a boot floppy. I'm more interested in not buying 2.0 on floppies, though, and making it out of the 2.0 on 400M hard drive that I'll be getting. Thanks -- scott hess scott@gac.edu Independent NeXT Developer GAC Undergrad "Tried anarchy, once. Found it had too many constraints . . ." "Buy `Sweat 'n wit '2 Live Crew'`, a new weight loss program by Richard Simmons . . ."