On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Michael Kukat wrote:

> Disk boot is a nice idea, but most VAXens don't have disk drives as i
> know. CD-Boot would also be nice, but who cas create a VAX-bootable
> CD-ROM. I checked it out, it seems that the CD-BOOT on VAXen only work
> with VMS-CDs. The file system must match and on an ISO9660 disc you only
> get something like ?FILESTRUCT or so.

For those with floppy drives and CD-ROM drives, it would be possible to
boot from floppy and mount the CD-ROM for the the remaining install.  This
would be exactly like the installs on the free i386 OS ports.  I don't
know of any PCs which can boot directly from ISO9660 filesystems.  It
sounds like we have all the necessary pieces to do this now.  It's just a
matter of someone sitting down and getting it done.

My initial focus on netbooting was primarily due to the fact that [1] I
had no hard drives in my VAXstations, and [2] there was no support for
SCSI devices at all when I started back in the 1.2E days.  With the
release of 1.4 (soon?), we'll be in *much* better shape to start making
the VAX port slick. 

-brian.
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