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Re: "Official" Debian 1.3 CD-ROM/Release Methodology



On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote:

> > Friends,
> > 
> > Is there yet an Official 1.3 CD-ROM available from anywhere? 
> 
> Talk Paul Wade of Greenbush on this list.  He very generously donated a
> pair of 1.3 cds to our project here.

The website is lagging. I dropped prices and am busy doing a subscription
run. I hope to get the new stuff posted tonight. Email is best until then.
  
> the Timestamp is 
> Thu Jun 19 15:57:01 UTC 1997

This means you finally got the CD drive working?
 
> > Is it
> > bootable? 
> 
> "The binary/install CD is bootable on machines that support 'El Torito'
> specification bootable CD's."

My experience with different test machines varied. If I were buying a
motherboard or SCSI card today, I would make sure the BIOS really works
with bootable CD's. Several with award BIOS booted it from IDE CD drives
with no problem. A Dell and 2 Gateway machines went into a reset loop,
although I was able to do a 0floppy install using dos/loadlin without
problems.

+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
+ Paul Wade                         Greenbush Technologies Corporation +
+ mailto:paulwade@greenbush.com              http://www.greenbush.com/ +
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+


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