Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!labrea!polya!ali
From: ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: remove optical after booting?
Message-ID: <6802@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 11 Feb 89 17:04:29 GMT
References: <434@gregb.UUCP>
Reply-To: aozer@NeXT.com (Ali Ozer)
Organization: .
Lines: 13

In article <434@gregb.UUCP> gregb@dowjone.UUCP (Gregory S. Baber) writes:
>Is it possible to remove the optical disk after booting from it, assuming
>that there's no magnetic disk at all? If so, how does NeXT manage the swap
>space?

No, it isn't.  You can of course eject the disk without unmounting it,
intentionally or unintentionally, but this is pretty much evil and
in most cases will crash the system.

Don't eject your boot disk.

Ali Ozer, aozer@NeXT.com
NeXT Developer Support