Some time ago I acquired a Cube with no disk and a dead OD. Over the
last few months Ive managed to source 64MB RAM, another OD (thats also
dead !), an external SCSI CD and a disk with NS3.0 on it.
On exploring the system, I found it had little in the way of apps, just
fax, email, and a few other 'utilities'.
As I wanted to get my hands on the bundled apps such as Writenow,
Webster, Mathematica and the other bits it should have had when it
started out in life, I got hold of a CD of NS3.3

Booting from NS3.0 and running the upgrade from the CD worked fine, and
I got NS3.3 when I booted and there were a few minor changes, but no
other apps. I'm guessing I didn't get any other apps because it assumed
I had them installed already.

On reading the next newsgroups, it seemed I might have more luck
booting from the CD. Changing my SCSI IDs round, it booted from CD and
installed NS3.3 and then said the install would contine after a reboot.
On rebooting, it understandably went back to the beginning of the
install all over again, so I tried changing my SCSI IDs around again.
This time it booted 3.3 from the disk but comes up with a failed mount
of /dev/sd1a on /
Then it tries mount: /dev/sd0a on /NEXTSTEP_INSTALL device busy giving
up
then /private/vm/swapfile: read only filesystem
A few more things load then it hangs on 'mounting remote filesystems'

Any thoughts?

In article <1128456052.679001.201640@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups. com>,
<chris.w.harris@talk21.com> wrote:

FWIW, Mathematica didn't come with 3.3, nor did WriteNow AFAIK.
Unless my memory is very much misleading me.


You shouldn't need to fiddle with the SCSI IDs at all. Your disk should
be the lowest SCSI ID, followed by the CD drive. Then use the ROM
monitor to boot from the CD. If you have the CD drive as the lowest ID
you get the behaviour you describe.

--
David Evans
Faculty of Computer Science dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/

In article <1128456052.679001.201640@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups. com>,
chris.w.harris@talk21.com wrote:


I had a similar problem on a Turbo slab. IIRC there is a 'filesystems'
file that says if the mounted drives are -r- or -rw-. I don't remember
now if I tried to edit that file or if I found something else...

Nelson

Thanks for the suggestions - I tried every combination of 'bsd(n,0,0)
rootdev=/dev/sdn' trying n as 1,2,1a,2a, adding a minus after the ) to
no avail. I have ROM v41 but I figured that if it can boot from CD if
the CD is the lowest SCSI ID, then it should boot from CD on any ID.
Anyway, I got tired of trying this, so went back to booting off the
disk with a -s switch to get into single user mode, changed the
filesystem to rw and then swapped the references to disk and CD in
fstab. Rebooted and hey presto, it continued the install from CD
successfully.
Now I am happy - all I need is to track down some apps for the machine
now.
Thanks for your help, Nelson & David