Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 15:52:20 +0100 (MET) From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de> To: pjchilds@imforei.apana.org.au (Peter Childs) Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD current users) Subject: Re: cdrom boot? Message-ID: <199611191452.PAA26310@freebie.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <199611191437.BAA08195@al.imforei.apana.org.au> from Peter Childs at "Nov 20, 96 01:07:55 am"
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Peter Childs writes: > In article <199611191016.LAA03849@freebie.lemis.de> you wrote: > : J Wunsch writes: >>> As J.J.Ming wrote: >>> >>>> Is it current boot from cdrom ? > >>> Nobody ever came round who was really interested in persuing this. > > : I think it's about time that the FreeBSD core team began paying some > : attention to the things which will gain acceptability of FreeBSD when > : compared to other free UNIXes. These include CD-ROM booting (which > : should be straightforward) and smooth support for ATAPI CD-ROMs (whic= h > : apparently isn't). > > diff's accepted :) Well, I did say "FreeBSD core team" to get myself out of that one :-) > I guess it would take someone that was concerned enuff about it with > access to a burner and boot'able cdrom to make it happen. Yup. With the possible exception of concern, it sounds like J=F6rg. It's his line of business, and he has a burner. > If someone wants to post me the above gear i'll do it :) > > There was a decently long thread on this that is probably in > the archives if you want more pointers/matterial/background to > help you out. Depending on how long ago it was, I may have started that one. It's a while back, and at the time nobody had any concrete details about how it worked. Now the things are on the market. Greg
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