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Subject: Re: cdrom boot?
In-Reply-To: <199611191437.BAA08195@al.imforei.apana.org.au> from Peter Childs at "Nov 20, 96 01:07:55 am"
To: pjchilds@imforei.apana.org.au (Peter Childs)
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Peter Childs writes:
> 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 (whic=
h
> : apparently isn't).
>
>  diff's accepted :)

Well, I did say "FreeBSD core team" to get myself out of that one :-)

>  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.

Yup.  With the possible exception of concern, it sounds like J=F6rg.
It's his line of business, and he has a burner.

>  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.

Depending on how long ago it was, I may have started that one.  It's a
while back, and at the time nobody had any concrete details about how
it worked.  Now the things are on the market.

Greg