Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: 2.3 wish: integrate pcmcia into mainstream kernel | Date | 6 Jun 1999 04:36:18 GMT |
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Followup to: <E10pc3b-0003XF-00@devel2.axiom.internal> By author: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > rhw@MemAlpha.CX said: > > > > 3. The floppy image realises that to do a CD install with > > this setup, it needs to load a supplementary image from > > the CD. > > It can't load a supplementary image from CD - the supplementary image was > never available from the CD via the INT 13h emulation in the first place. > > You'd need a floppy drive, and to put the supplementary image on a floppy. > > Or recreate the install image as a hard drive image, rather than a floppy disk > image, so it has enough space for the SCSI drivers on it. Note that most > BIOSes apparently don't support this, though. >
Are you sure? I seem to recall that NT 4.0 boots off either a "raw" image or a hard disk image, and if so I expect that these BIOSes will be short-lived.
Also, when you run into these things, remember to notify your vendor.
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