Subj : 2.88 MB Floppy Operations?
To   : Kris Steenhaut
From : Eddy Thilleman
Date : Fri Mar 23 2001 03:16 am

Hello Kris,

Tuesday 20 March 2001 11:58, Kris Steenhaut wrote to Eddy Thilleman:

KS> By booting from a CD. Dunno how they do it exactly, but at the boot
KS> two 2.8 floppies are emulated and "installed". From these the whole os
KS> is installed onto a Z: Ramfs station. Out from this Ramfs station then
KS> new and/or existing partitions are updated .

I see.

ET>> The Adaptec SCSI BIOS has the option to boot from a SCSI cdrom
ET>> drive.

KS> Yes it has. However, you won't boot eCS with a SCSC cd-rom just like
KS> that.

Why not?

Anyway, my SCSI hostadapter doesn't have support for booting from a cdrom, so I
can't even try.


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