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From: veit@borneo.gmd.de (Holger Veit)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer.misc,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.minix,comp.os.mach,comp.periphs,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc
Subject: Re: [Announcement] 386BSD Release 1.0
Date: 7 May 1994 15:52:46 GMT
Organization: GMD
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Message-ID: <2qgdge$5ni@omega.gmd.de>
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Amancio Hasty Jr (hasty@netcom.com) wrote:
: I think that the linux crowd has had the capability of booting from a
: CDROM for quite some time...
:
: Amancio
Oh yes, but a bootp host or a floppy to host at least the primary and
secondary loader (under Linux LILO or others) is always involved here.
The statement that was reported was that you could do this *without*
a boot floppy, and it is still unproved.
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