At 01:26 PM 12/10/01, you wrote: >That's a new one on me .. > >On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 10:54:36 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: ><snip> > > My system does not allow booting to the CD-ROM drive. > >I've never seen a system that could recognize the CD-ROM but couldn't >boot from it. I take it that you double-triple checked your available >CMOS settings ... wow, that's weird
No it isn't. Booting from CDrom only came out about four years ago. Older pentiums, the first generation and any older systems cannot do it. They require drivers loaded before they even know there is a cdrom. Hence they must boot from floppy with drivers included or from a system installed on hard drive. -- For a country to be free it's citizens must have a way to defy unjust laws. The new electronic snooping devices are a step in the direction of fascism. Consequently I am appending the following Carnivore Confusion noise to all outgoing email: "Allah; America; Anthrax; arms; bomb; border; capitalist; communicate; customs; death; delivery; economic; imperialist; jihad; plane; PGP; rendevous; trucks; war; weapons; U.S.A.; end transmission
