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Date:      Mon, 07 Dec 1998 12:16:37 +1030 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, obrien@NUXI.com
Subject:   Re: New drivers and install floppy space
Message-ID:  <XFMail.981207121637.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <199812060720.XAA02870@dingo.cdrom.com>

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On 06-Dec-98 Mike Smith wrote:
>  No.  The way that bootable CDROMs work is that the BIOS pretends that a 
>  1.44MB region at the beginning of the CDROM is actually a 1.44MB floppy 
>  disk.
Or 2.88Mb..
Not a solution, but some more space..

Hmm.. actually, the El Torrito spec says you can emulate a HD as well..
Of course thats the spec, I have absolutly no idea how that is reflected in reality.

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum

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