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From: othman@oasys.pc.my (Othman Ahmad)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Report on SVNET: Bill Jolitz's Talk; Mind Overload.
Message-ID: <R9cgRc2w165w@oasys.pc.my>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 94 10:22:50 +800
References: <1994Aug19.144437.26982@resonex.com>
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michael@resonex.com (Michael Bryan) writes:
> Dave Tweten <tweten@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov> wrote:
> >
> >The final revelation to me was how he planned for users to boot directly
> >off the CD, with no need for a boot floppy. The actual scheme is:
> >
> > 1. Have an Adaptec 154xy SCSI controler, for all values of x and y.
> > Also have a Mitsumi CD drive.
> >
> > 2. Boot DOS.
> >
> > 3. Mount the CD under DOS and run a "boot 386BSD" program off the CD.
>
> Isn't that special... Frankly, I'll take a boot floppy, thankyouverymuch.
It is good. I like it very much. It was initially used in Yggdrasil Linux
Beta Rev C but failed on my system because the boot image assumes that I must
have a supported CDROM installed.
Disconnecting my Panasonic CDROM did not work.
I don't like dosemu. DOS is better. So when my children play with DOS games,
I can easily boot up Unix from DOS instead of resetting.
The best form of booting from DOS is to access the BSD fs via DOS so that we
can use the same image as our main *bsd system. It also can give us
alternative images loadable from DOS.
SABAH is HEAVEN. Beautiful islands, mountains and jungles are next to 5 star
hotels. There are no natural and very few man-made disasters,
BUT for how long will it last?
Disclaimer: I only speak for myself