[ale] Re: RH 4.0 is a bootable cdrom

[ewt at redhat.com (Erik Troan)]

On Sat, 9 Nov 1996, Ed June wrote:

> Wow, how many others knew the Intel version of the RH 4.0 cdrom was
> bootable?

:-)

They aren't all bootable. We had to have more CD's pressed, and Michael
Fulbright (msf at redhat.com) provided the magic to make our CD's bootable. 
I'm glad to see it worked ;-)

> I just got RH 4.0 on Friday, made 2.0.25, re-booted new kernel.
> And upon re-boot the machine booted off of the cdrom, incredible.
> The User Guide doesn't cover this, that I'm aware of.
> Can I install or upgrade this way, instead of floppy boot?

It should work just fine.

Erik

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