From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 19 14:21:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA10870 for current-outgoing; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 14:21:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA10849 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 14:21:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA08150 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 23:21:28 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA10495 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 23:21:28 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id XAA09962 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 23:01:41 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611192201.XAA09962@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: cdrom boot? To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 23:01:41 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199611191746.SAA00462@freebie.lemis.de> from Greg Lehey at "Nov 19, 96 06:46:12 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Greg Lehey wrote: > Hmm. I don't understand the format of the documents at www.ptltd.com, > so I can't read the stuff, but the impression that I got from the c't > article was that it was pretty straightforward. "straightbackward", you mean? :-) > I still think it would be a good selling point for FreeBSD 2.2 to have > directly bootable CD-ROMs. No way. 2.2 is gone. Only critical bugfixes accepted. (There's always one more feature to incorporate... somewhere must be the line. And this one is _far_ from getting ready RSN.) > I'm sure the guys at Walnut Creek CDROM > would love it, too. We'll accept diffs from Walnut Creek employees, too. ;-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)