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Followup to: <20040208212757.GW28571@lug-owl.de> By author: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > That's not all correct. You can fit 700 MB data on a CD-ROM, but booting > is still emulated from a 1.44 MB floppy (or some other floppy/HDD > images, but many BIOSses won't accept those (or handle them correctly)). > Baloney. Most BIOSes support "no emulation" booting these days; in fact, there are more that don't do floppy emulation correctly than the few very old BIOSes which didn't do no emulation. -hpa -- PGP public key available - finger hpa@zytor.com Key fingerprint: 2047/2A960705 BA 03 D3 2C 14 A8 A8 BD 1E DF FE 69 EE 35 BD 74 "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Bahá'u'lláh Just Say No to Morden * The Shadows were defeated -- Babylon 5 is renewed!! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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