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CD-booting [was: Re: ISA bus configuration]: msg#00006

os.netbsd.ports.x86-64

Subject: CD-booting [was: Re: ISA bus configuration]


Hi Frank!

On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Frank van der Linden wrote:
I totally agree. One problem currently is, that using ACPI will overflow
the install floppy. So I've postponed switching to ACPI only until the
install media situation can be fixed (switched to CD only, with a different
El Torito booting method).

Do you happen to know how far off that different booting method is?
Might be useful to for live CDs too, to have a loader that can boot from
CDs directly, with cloop etc. around the corner, and IIRC someone already posted something about that working some time ago...


- Hubert

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NetBSD - Free AND Open! (And of course secure, portable, yadda yadda)



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