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From: ersys!drin@nro.cs.athabascau.ca (Adrian Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Release 2.0/External Hard Drive help needed
Message-ID: <ReXZ12w164w@ersys.uucp>
Date: 26 Apr 91 05:36:02 GMT
References: <1991Apr25.214302.11766@hardy.u.washington.edu>
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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markc@hardy.u.washington.edu (Mark Choi) writes:

> I'm thinking of purchasing a NeXTStation 105, 8, 2.88 and also
> a third-party 105 meg QUANTUM Hard Drive. What I was thinking of doing
> was copying Release 2.0 EXTENDED (instead of standard) onto the 105 
> internal and then partitioning the external drive for virtual memory
> and free space. Will Release 2.0 Extended fit on 105 megs? Or will I
> have to split up Release 2.0 extended onto both hard drives?
> 
> Mark (respond to markc@hardy.u.washington.edu)
> thanks

 
A virgin Extended 2.0 install from OD is 179 megs, so it *probably* won't 
fit on a 105. Perhaps that's why they didn't ship Extended on the 105's?
 
:-)

-drin

Adrian Smith             ersys!drin@nro.cs.athabascau.ca
Edmonton Remote Systems:  Serving Northern Alberta since 1982