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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: [Announcement] 386BSD Release 1.0
Message-ID: <hastyCpE6Fq.5xF@netcom.com>
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References: <2q8qqr$q96@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <hastyCpCLny.5q8@netcom.com> <newcombe.142.00141E4A@aa.csc.peachnet.edu>
Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 17:40:37 GMT
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In article <newcombe.142.00141E4A@aa.csc.peachnet.edu> newcombe@aa.csc.peachnet.edu (Dan Newcombe) writes:
>In article <hastyCpCLny.5q8@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
>>I think that the linux crowd has had the capability of booting from a
>>CDROM for quite some time...
>
>I think you missed the point. The idea was you plop the CD in the drive, and
>boot from that - not from the hard drive - not from a floppy drive, purely
>from the CD drive.
>
Hmmm.. I failed to see how I missed the point here. I err
in that I misread previous Linux postings claiming that
they could boot from a CDROM. And as stated in a previous postings
the magic of booting from a CDROM or from *any* scsi device is in
the host adapter BIOS being able to read the bootsector from
the drive.
BTW: I have a toshiba cdrom drive and have installed *bsd numerous
times and I can really appreciate the ability to boot straight
from a CDROM and not have to do deal with floppies.
Amancio
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