MCA support came pretty late, so that's not terribly surprising. As did booting-from CD-ROM, for that matter. I think I remember a fairly long period where the CD-ROM hung off the SoundBlaster, not the IDE bus. Adam On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 9:22 PM Kevin Bowling wrote: > Yup I remember doing a boot/root floppies with Slackware as late as the > early 2000s on an IBM PS/2 Model 95. > > On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 7:29 PM Grant Taylor via TUHS > wrote: > >> On 8/9/19 6:23 PM, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: >> > In '95, Slackware started releasing on CD-ROM's, and while there may >> > have been boot/root floppies, I suspect more and more they were used as >> > rescue media, since installing from a CD-ROM was *way* more convenient. >> >> The boot & root floppies were how you booted Slackware for a long time. >> The CD-ROM was unbootable for quite a while. You booted off of floppy >> and the installation scripts would ask you which drive had the CD-ROM in >> it to mount and install from. >> >> > I'm guesing what you were doing was creating a kernel plus initramfs >> > which was sufficient to mount a root file system elsewhere as an >> > emergency "boot this failsafe kernel off the floppy", perhaps? >> > I don't think a kernel+initramfs on a single 1.44MB floppy would >> > have been sufficient for use as an install medium by '99. Or were >> > you making an emergency USB thumb-drive as a rescue device, maybe? >> >> It was a re-roll of the above boot & root disk set. It was not rescue >> media per-say. Though the standard boot & root disk set did get used >> for rescue purposes in addition to installation. >> >> >> >> -- >> Grant. . . . >> unix || die >> >>