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Oliver Lehmann wrote:
> Terry Lambert wrote:
> > You need to buy Adaptec controllers; they can boot CDROMs.
> 
> yeah.. the Controller exchange drive A with your cdrom. So it looks like
> your cd-rom is a floppy drive and you can boot from. But when you are in
> sysinstall. You can't choose install from cd-rom - because you don't have
> a cdrom... just a floppy... you see how fscking this is?

Never had that problem with my AHA1742 and my Toshiba CDROM...
like I said before: you need to buy a different controller.

-- Terry