[Sunhelp] intel solaris

[Edward Chase]

2 questions...

Does you BIOS support booting from CD?
Does you CD-ROM drive support booting from CD?

I don't recall being able to boot from CD with hardware from the Pentium 
100 era.



At 01:13 AM 8/20/2000 +0000, Habib wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have a PC solaris that i like to install on my wintel 95 system
>with pentium 100.  my cdrom does not seem to want to yield to this
>solaris 7 cdrom. i can not boot from it with this CD and when i boot from 
>floppy drive the installation can not contniue with the cdrom from the 
>cdrom drive. I went to bios and changed the boot up priorities to make it 
>boot from cdrom but nothing seems to work. What is the best possible thing 
>i can do to make the cd drive to boot,....
>same problem with linux cdroms.

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