Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 01:07:55 +1030 (CST) From: Peter Childs <pjchilds@imforei.apana.org.au> To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey), freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cdrom boot? Message-ID: <199611191437.BAA08195@al.imforei.apana.org.au>
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In article <199611191016.LAA03849@freebie.lemis.de> you wrote: : J Wunsch writes: : > As J.J.Ming wrote: : > : >> Is it current boot from cdrom ? : > Nobody ever came round who was really interested in persuing this. : I think it's about time that the FreeBSD core team began paying some : attention to the things which will gain acceptability of FreeBSD when : compared to other free UNIXes. These include CD-ROM booting (which : should be straightforward) and smooth support for ATAPI CD-ROMs (which : apparently isn't). diff's accepted :) I guess it would take someone that was concerned enuff about it with access to a burner and boot'able cdrom to make it happen. If someone wants to post me the above gear i'll do it :) There was a decently long thread on this that is probably in the archives if you want more pointers/matterial/background to help you out. Peter -- Peter Childs --- http://www.imforei.apana.org.au/~pjchilds Finger pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au for public PGP key Drag me, drop me, treat me like an object!
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