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From: Andrew Stesin <stesin@gu.net>
To: Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com>
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Subject: Re: What's wrong with a bootable CDROM???
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On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Thomas David Rivers wrote:

>  You see, the packages are the installation (bootable) CD-ROM, and
> I tend to leave it in the drive.
[...]
>  Does anyone else have a suggestion?
> 
	Yep. Try to discover how to teach your BIOSes to perform
	the following boot sequence, for example: "C,CDROM,A"
	(that's what my new fbsd machine knows about, though it's IDE).

	There is a chance that your motherboard' BIOS should be
	upgraded, though.

> 	- Dave Rivers -
> 

Andrew