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From: jfjr@mbunix.mitre.org (Jerome Freedman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: several more possibly stupid questions
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Date: 20 Jan 89 13:07:46 GMT
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   Hi, its me again - a new user - I have 3 dn3500s, two with
cartridge and 170 meg disk, one with nothing - running sr10.1.
I have one up successfully (whew) running bsd_large. Here
are my questions

1) I want to conserve some disk space (I have NFS, uninstalled
but probably today). I would like to boot the other disked
apollo as well as the undisked from the machine I already have up,
then have the disked, but remote booting apollo mount its
own disk. It should be possible but its not really clear how
this may be done.

2) I have NIDL and am trying to install it. It barfs
immediately but thats a problem I will take up with Apollo
software support when I can get a response. The NIDL
instructions say that /bsd4.2 must not be a link. My
bsd4.3 large installation (untouched by human or my hands)
has /bsd4.2 as a link to /bsd4.3. Now I didn't put it
there but NIDL doesn't like it and as long as its
there I can't install NIDL. I am hesitant to play
with the configuration Apollo handed me. If I do
remove the link what happens?. What should be in
/bsd4.2 to make the NIDL installation happy?
My insinct is to remove the link, make a /bsd4.2 directory
and have that directory just consist of links to the
directories directly under /bsd4.3 (there are only about
4 there). Will This work? will it mess up the magic?




Jerry Freedman, Jr       "Why did 
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