Bootable ISO's

2001-05-15 Thread Gray, David
First let me apologize for butting in like this - I get hackers via the digest, so its tough to reply to the right people. I think its useful to note the principle of a bootable CD. You don't really boot the CD. (No really) What you are doing is loading an image of a floppy into RAM, the BIOS th

Promise Fastrak

2000-06-13 Thread Gray, David W.
I'm surprised nobody pointed out -- there was an article on ARS technica a while back about using an Ultra as a Fastrak. Turns out, you need to flash the Fastrak BIOS, and change a jumper on the board *underneath* the BIOS chip (gotta unsolder, etc.) Then somebody noticed it was just a 1K pullup r