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From: bof@wg.saar.de (Patrick Schaaf)
Subject: Re: [Announcement] 386BSD Release 1.0
References: <2q63q2$927@dearg.cuillin.org.uk> <wright.86.000DC700@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov> <2q8qqr$q96@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <hastyCpCLny.5q8@netcom.com> <newcombe.142.00141E4A@aa.csc.peachnet.edu>
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Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 18:29:29 GMT
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newcombe@aa.csc.peachnet.edu (Dan Newcombe) writes:

>I think you missed the point.  The idea was you plop the CD in the drive, and 
>boot from that - not from the hard drive - not from a floppy drive, purely 
>from the CD drive.

Given a motherboard with memory, an Adaptec, a CD drive, and video/keyboard,
the question is

How?

I didn't know I can toggle in some boot code when it says

NO ROM BASIC.
SYSTEM HALTED.

bye
  Patrick