Subject: Re: Booting from other devices
To: Markus Illenseer <markus@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>
From: Hubert Feyrer <Hubert.Feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
List: amiga
Date: 09/28/1994 10:37:34
> > Rock Ridge disks can have device nodes.
>
>  Hu? Are you really sure about this? Why don't all those Linux-Distributions
> use this? They all use a boot-floppy. I was almost certain that RR doesn't
> support device node entries, i guess i have to check again.

I guess the fact that they use a boot-floppy over a bootable CD is simply the
fact that you (usually...) can't boot a PC off a CD-ROM.


Hubert

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