Subject: Re: i386 install media status ?
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
From: Blair Sadewitz <blair.sadewitz@gmail.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/28/2006 18:55:21
You could always provide a FreeDOS boot CD that uses DOSBOOT.COM to
load a kernel off of the ISO9660 filesystem on the CDROM. ;)

Seriously, what do the linux distributions do?

--Blair

On 11/28/06, Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:59:04 +0100
> Pavel Cahyna <pavel@NetBSD.org> wrote:
>
>
> > Are we afraid of BIOSes which can't
> > boot from "no emulation" bootable CDs and require the "emulated
> > floppy" method?
> >
> That's the argument that's been used in the past.
>
>
>
> 		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
>


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