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From: carter@sloth.gatech.edu (Carter Bullard)
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Subject: Re: Application launch time
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Date: 30 Jan 89 18:04:22 GMT
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In article <7554@potomac.ads.com> jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson) writes:
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>A similar question is why does it take so long for the NeXT to boot?  I
>timed it... it takes exactly 5 minutes and 10 seconds and I doubt much
>of that was fsck time although I could be wrong...
>

Unfortunately, it is mostly fsck.  If you press the command key and the
back quote key at the same time, you'll get a mach window asking if you
really want to reboot. type y and, if it gives you a NeXT> prompt, type
bsd (for boot off of the sd drive).  you'll see whats going on
when you boot.


Carter Bullard
School of Information & Computer Science, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
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