Re: [TCLUG:16898] Par port SCSI bootdisk?

[Nate Carlson <natecars@real-time.com>]

On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Gabe Turner wrote:
> Well, if you boot from the floppy (and it's, say, a RedHat install floppy) you
> won't have a shell to run modprobe or insmod from.... Slackware, OTOH, gives
> you a shell right away (Go Slack! :) 
> 
> Gabe (go-go asbestos shield!)

Redhat actually gives you a shell at about the same point Slackware does..
right after you tell it where to find the root file system. (Which
Slackware just assumes to be another floppy..)

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