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Date:      Sat, 03 May 2003 19:05:23 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de>
Cc:        Duraid Madina <duraid@octopus.com.au>
Subject:   Re: Floppy Support
Message-ID:  <3EB47563.58841D21@mindspring.com>
References:  <3EB3C118.6020203@octopus.com.au> <3EB450E0.9060702@octopus.com.au> <20030504014858.GA23099@moghedien.mukappabeta.net>

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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



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