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From: newcombe@aa.csc.peachnet.edu (Dan Newcombe)
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Subject: Re: [Announcement] 386BSD Release 1.0
Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 08:39:37 UNDEFINED
Organization: Clayton State College
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In article <hastyCpCLny.5q8@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
>I think that the linux crowd has had the capability of booting from a
>CDROM for quite some time...

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.

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Dan Newcombe                    newcombe@aa.csc.peachnet.edu
Clayton State College           Morrow, Georgia
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