Re: Bootable cdroms (was: Hows Alphadebian doing?)
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On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Paul Slootman wrote:
> Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 21:36:42 +0100
> From: Paul Slootman <paul@wau.mis.ah.nl>
> To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Bootable cdroms (was: Hows Alphadebian doing?)
>
> > The only OS you need a floppy for is Linux.
>
> I'd love to hear details on how to fix this then, as you seem
> knowledgeable on the subject. I have a cd-recordable so I won't mind
> experimenting with cdroms on my XLT and Multia to create a bootable
> cdrom for alpha.
>
> 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.
>
Okay... now I know it's not exactly bootable... but I have a
RedHat 5.0 distro CD for DEC Alpha which if I load the system into MILO it
will load the kernel and a live version entirely off the CDROM... this was
actually how I was able to rescue my Alpha after a resent power outage
that corrupted my root partition... But like I said it wasn't exactly
bootable... I did have to have MILO install'd either on the harddrive or
the floppy disk... I actually modified my normal OS load setting to boot
off the cdrom rather than the harddrive and work'd fine... gave me the
idea to rebuild my root partition and burn a copy for rescue purposes...
Respectfully,
Jeremy T. Bouse
Sr. System Administrator
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