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From: "Mark" <mrstevens@monmouth.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: CD-ROM from Walnut Creek
Date: 22 Jun 1997 11:09:13 GMT
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I don't think the El torito extensions have anything to do
with your current OS. It has to do with your BIOS.
If you have a setting in your BIOS to boot to CD ROM,
then you have the extensions.


Mark

Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote in article
<33ABA51E.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org>...
> cjtan@acs.ucalgary.ca wrote:
> > 
> > Is the CD from Watnut Creek supposed to be bootable?
> 
> Yep!  Works fine for us, too.
> 
> -- 
> - Jordan Hubbard
>   FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.
>