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From(H. Peter Anvin)
SubjectRe: IPV4 as module?
DateFri, 13 Feb 2004 06:15:38 +0000 (UTC)
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.

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