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Matthias Buelow wrote:
> I might also add that there are probably quite a few of us
> who've always been using scsi cdroms, also to keep the machine
> ide-free... and that pc bioses often have extreme trouble booting
> from scsi cdroms, if at all (I've never seen a PC myself where
> this worked), so the only option is floppies, or netboot.

You need to buy Adaptec controllers; they can boot CDROMs.

-- Terry