From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 19 06:38:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA09113 for current-outgoing; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 06:38:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from al.imforei.apana.org.au (al.imforei.apana.org.au [202.12.89.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA09101 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 06:38:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from pjchilds@localhost) by al.imforei.apana.org.au (beBop) id BAA08195; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 01:07:55 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 01:07:55 +1030 (CST) From: Peter Childs Message-Id: <199611191437.BAA08195@al.imforei.apana.org.au> To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey), freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cdrom boot? X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 961020] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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!