[3868] in RedHat Linux List
Re: RH 4.0 is a bootable cdrom
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Troan)
Mon Nov 11 12:03:26 1996
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 11:58:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
To: Ed June <buggz@america.net>
cc: "ale@cc.gatech.edu" <ale@cc.gatech.edu>,
"redhat-list@redhat.com" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <199611091314.IAA09534@atl1.america.net>
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On Sat, 9 Nov 1996, Ed June wrote:
> Wow, how many others knew the Intel version of the RH 4.0 cdrom was
> bootable?
:-)
They aren't all bootable. We had to have more CD's pressed, and Michael
Fulbright (msf@redhat.com) provided the magic to make our CD's bootable.
I'm glad to see it worked ;-)
> I just got RH 4.0 on Friday, made 2.0.25, re-booted new kernel.
> And upon re-boot the machine booted off of the cdrom, incredible.
> The User Guide doesn't cover this, that I'm aware of.
> Can I install or upgrade this way, instead of floppy boot?
It should work just fine.
Erik
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