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To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Booting from CD..? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 13 Jan 1996 08:21:25 PST."
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Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 08:39:44 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> I think we need to be able to install from alternate kernels first.
> How hard would it be to devise a "boot" floppy that anyone can
> build without going through the release process that would stop

Not hard.  I've thought about it a fair bit, since it comes up
often.  Perhaps in the next rev of the release tools, once we
get them working again at all. :-)

					Jordan