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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.sgi.com!howland.erols.net!news.nacamar.de!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news 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 Lines: 16 Message-ID: <5a9dvg$huj@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <32BECE33.15FB@math.tau.ac.il> <59ofu8$brm@uriah.heep.sax.de> <32C1A0F0.212B@math.tau.ac.il> <5a402k$59d@symiserver2.symantec.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33327 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 Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)