Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 08:21:25 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting from CD..? Message-ID: <199601131621.IAA02230@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 Jan 1996 21:40:39 PST." <10173.821511639@time.cdrom.com>
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>1. Boot direct from CD. It's my understanding that certain SCSI > adapters support this - any clues as to which ones do and how > you might go about making them do it? Naturally, we'd also have > to figure out some way of getting boot blocks onto a CD. This is entirely system BIOS dependant. I've heard of Compaq and HP doing this (Compaq with their own controller, the HP with an onboard aic7770). Both vendors ship some kind of "configuration" CDROM instead of shipping floppies and that was the motivation for the feature. >2. Take advantage of Win95's `autolaunch' on CD insertion to do > something clever. Not exactly sure WHAT yet, but it's an idea. Launch the Win95 browser into our handbook's installation notes. >Thoughts? I think we need to be able to install from alternate kernels first. How hard would it be to devise a "boot" floppy that anyone can build without going through the release process that would stop after loading the kernel and use the installation diskette for root and then continue on. You also have to add an option (or autodetect this condition), so you could prompt for the other diskette after writting out the distributions so you could copy the right kernel to the disk. Right now its just to difficult to get people to test kernels that might allow them to install if the release or snapshot floppies fail. > Jordan -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================
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