Re: IPV4 as module?

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri Feb 13 2004 - 01:18:09 EST


Followup to: <20040208212757.GW28571@xxxxxxxxxx>
By author: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@xxxxxxxxxx>
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.

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