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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
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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
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