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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.texas.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!esiee.fr!jussieu.fr!not-for-mail From: bouyer@dess306.ibp.fr (Manuel BOUYER) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Booting from CD on pmax? Date: 8 Oct 1996 07:47:44 GMT Organization: Universites Paris VI/Paris VII - France Lines: 19 Message-ID: <53d0v0$eik@vishnu.jussieu.fr> References: <53aqkd$1id@kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: dess306.ibp.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de X-Newsreader: Newsview 0.39 (last pre-beta) Supervisor (ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de) wrote: > I have a DECstation 5000/133 still running Ultrix 4.2a. The box > is not attached to the net, nor do I have any second workstation > to contact as the recommended helper machine. My question is: > is it possible to boot a miniroot system via an attached RRD42 > CDROM drive? Ultrix is able to boot from the RRD42 drive so it > should be possible to install such a system on a CD. has anybody > any ideas how to do or where to get well prepared CDs? > Markus Illenseer <markus@tiger.teuto.de> is preparing a CD distribution for NetBSD 1.2. You should look at the current-users mailing list archives (available from www.netbsd.org or ftp.netbsd.org), there has been a discussion about that a few time ago. -- Manuel Bouyer, MASI, Universite Paris VI. email: bouyer@masi.ibp.fr --