Re: Amiga and Sarge: any hope to booting off CDROMs
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 18:13, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote:
> I ordered sarge for 68k from Abexia and wondered how to boot my Amiga
> 2000HD off them and possibly install it on a spare SCSI drive. I'm having
> trouble booting off my boot hard drive and hoped to boot the Amiga with
> 3.1 floppies and then get the sarge CDROM to boot. I get the impression
> that this is a bit more involved than just installing woody on a Gateway
> 500. (I have woody CDROM's for that arch so obviously I can't use them.)
>
> Is this a total pipedream? Or can I actually do something?
Off the top of my head I don't see why you would not be able to do it that
way. I'm fairly sure I have done it that way, but it was at least two years
ago, so my memory is rather hazy.
> I also have an Ariadne network
> card which should be usable. Would the sarge CDROM's boot procedure see
> it?
AFAIK it should.
Erik
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