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Date:      Mon, 07 Dec 1998 15:46:47 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se>
Cc:        mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), obrien@NUXI.com, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New drivers and install floppy space 
Message-ID:  <199812072346.PAA00838@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 07 Dec 1998 02:48:59 %2B0100." <199812070148.CAA13594@ocean.campus.luth.se> 

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> But... we have 1.44 MB on the CD... Since the bios manages to read the
> file, wouldn't there be a generic way that we could also read something
> from the CD? So that we could make a floppy which does a call and reads a
> 5 MB image from the CD, and unpacks the kernel with MFS from that, with
> full drivers and a nice splash image, too. :-)
> But, lemme guess: "Sorry... There's no way to fool the BIO to read the CD" ?

Correct.

However Daniel's point about emulating a harddisk is a good one; I 
checked my El Torito docco and discovered I was out of date.

If we're going to go off the beaten track, we might as well do it 
properly.  A 10M harddisk image is going to be a much better idea in 
that case.

-- 
\\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
\\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com



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