Re: Please test this woody cd image

[Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>]

#include <hallo.h>
Michael Stone wrote on Fri Apr 12, 2002 um 09:48:36AM:
> > It failed to boot an IBM Aptiva 2161-C8E desktop with a 1/19/1997
> > BIOS. This 166Mhz Pentium box has been my trusty machine for 5 years,
> > and boots the potato r3 CD and also another woody netinst ISO (the one
> 
> Well, I guess the question is do we want to support new machines or old
> machines; it doesn't seem that we can do both. (I'd vote for the former
> because we need to move forward, and it's not like we're removing the
> floppy boot option.)

Btw, I would suggest this order:

1: Multiboot
3: idepci
2: bf2.4
4: compact
5 and rest: vanilla

So people with broken BIOSes have luck with the next CD-ROM.

Gruss/Regards,
Eduard.
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