Re: Bootable CDROM's

Tracy R. Reed (treed@straylight.connectnet.com)
Thu, 22 Aug 1996 20:28:20 -0700 (PDT)


On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, John Huttley wrote:

> The latest Pentium Bioses from Award and AMI have CDROM boot options
> that supposedly work with ATAPI and SCSI Drives.
>
> Modifying the Kernel Boot Code would permit self installing distributions,
> which would be a great advance.

Hey, that would be quite slick. Anyone know if the Alpha can do this as
well? I'm going to be buying one quite soon, so I'm curious.

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