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From: brian@canada.sun.com (Brian Onn - OpCom Staff)
Subject: Re: [Announcement] 386BSD Release 1.0
In-Reply-To: robsch@robkaos.ping.de's message of Thu, 5 May 1994 18:08:30 GMT
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In article <1994May5.180830.734@robkaos.ping.de> robsch@robkaos.ping.de (Robert Schien) writes:
> Now it is possible that you add further options to the host adapter BIOS
> which allows you to select the SCSI ID from which you want to boot.
> Therefore you could boot from any SCSI device. Of course, it should
> make sense: how dou you boot from a SCSI printer? :-)

You're right, booting from a printer is silly.  That's why I always
use a SCSI scanner, instead.  It's great... I can just handwrite any
bootblock and OS I want.

Of course, you can dump your OS to the printer, and then your friend
can boot it with his scanner, too.  Try it.  cat /kernel/unix | lp

Brian :-)

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