Re: Bootable cdroms (was: Hows Alphadebian doing?)
On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 09:36:42PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote:
> As the Red Hat alpha cdroms aren't bootable either (at least, they
> weren't when I last checked), and they have this magnificent intel
> and sparc installation procedures (both architectures have bootable
> cdroms) I assumed that the task on Alpha was much much more difficult.
The redhat CD-ROMs _can_ be booted from, but it's not as trivial as
you might like. You can set up a boot menu item that points to milo
and the kernel on the CD. I don't recall exactly what I did, and I
don't have access to the machine at the moment, but I certainly did
manage to do it once. If anybody's curious I can go dig out the CD
and the machine and do it again.
I wouldn't recommend this as a method for installation, though, since
it was quite painful. If setting up a CD-ROM boot record is the only
way to boot from CD, then I think a boot floppy is simpler.
Booting a CD from SRM is probably just one line of gobbledegook, and
might be a reasonable way to install on machines that will use SRM.
> > >> Not so important, but how is the "Install Windows NT" working in the
> > >> BIOS ??
> > >As I said, I believe most Alpha's don't have that option in their bios.
> >
> > All do. Yes, I said _ALL_ with ARC, ARCS, or AlphaBIOS.
>
> No, you said "..., and on most running ARC or AlphaBIOS". That's
> "most", not "_ALL_". I left your quote in.
Maurice said that "most [Alphas] running ARC or AlphaBIOS" can be
booted from CD-ROM. Then he said "_ALL_ with ARC, ARCS, or
AlphaBIOS [have an 'Install Windows NT' menu item].". I don't see any
contradiction in those two statements.
-andy
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