>> On Sun, 10 Oct 1999 16:33:43 -0700 (PDT), patl@phoenix.volant.org said:

> What OS you are booting has absolutely no effect on what the ROM
> monitor supports for the first boot stage.  So are you claiming
> that an SS2 ROM monitor will boot from CD-ROMs with 2048Kb sectors;
> or that if you boot the first stage from floppy or some other medium
> that you can finish the boot from a 2048Kb-only CD-ROM?

I have no sparc with the CD-ROM drive with 2048Kbytes sectors so that
I can't try to boot NetBSD from the CD-ROM dirve. but I heard my friend
that his IPX could boot NetBSD from the 2048Kb-only CD-ROM drive 
without other medium, such as floppy and tape.


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