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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: how can I boot from "live CDROM"?
Date: 30 Dec 1996 21:59:12 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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tedm@agora.rdrop.com wrote:

> Other than those two companies, I don't know any others who make
> computers that can be set to boot from the CD.  It would be
> conceivable that someone could modify a SCSI adapter's BIOS code to
> do so, that would be a nice feature to have.

More recent SCSI controllers do this (i think all the Adaptecs, to the
least).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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