From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IPV4 as module?
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 06:15:38 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c0hq2a$ftg$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20040208212757.GW28571@lug-owl.de
Followup to: <20040208212757.GW28571@lug-owl.de>
By author: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> That's not all correct. You can fit 700 MB data on a CD-ROM, but booting
> is still emulated from a 1.44 MB floppy (or some other floppy/HDD
> images, but many BIOSses won't accept those (or handle them correctly)).
>
Baloney. Most BIOSes support "no emulation" booting these days; in fact,
there are more that don't do floppy emulation correctly than the few very
old BIOSes which didn't do no emulation.
-hpa
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2004-02-04 20:06 IPV4 as module? Andrey Borzenkov
2004-02-05 12:29 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-02-08 2:14 ` Tomasz Kłoczko
2004-02-08 21:27 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-02-09 3:21 ` Tomasz Kłoczko
2004-02-13 6:15 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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2004-02-13 13:33 ` der.eremit
2004-02-16 6:49 ` Tomasz Kłoczko
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