From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 10 10:20:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA27456 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 10:20:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from guardian.fortress.org (fortress.org [199.84.158.128]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA27435 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 10:20:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from andrew@localhost) by guardian.fortress.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA01552; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 13:18:42 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 13:18:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Webster Reply-To: andrew@pubnix.net To: James Leppek cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bootable CD's (fwd) In-Reply-To: <9607101511.AA02412@suw2k.hisd.harris.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 10 Jul 1996, James Leppek wrote: > If anyone comes up with any pointers I am willing to give it a try, I am > also trying to get the info from gigabyte. This seems like a handy CD to have > for those catastrophic failure days :-) > or for those sysadmins who REALLY want to control the system > i.e. firewall or public access machines. > > Jim (new HP CDR owner) Leppek HP's Netserver line comes with bootable CDs. The main controller is an AIC-7880 based system on the motherboard, and it boots from a SCSI CDROM. It appears to replace A: with the CDROM during the boot proceedure. The BIOS is an Adaptec bios with a CD bootable option. This would be a really handy feature! Andrew Webster - andrew@pubnix.net - http://www.pubnix.net PubNIX Montreal - Connected to the world - Branche au monde 514-990-5911 - P.O. Box 147, Cote St-Luc, Quebec, H4V 2Y3