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- From: rees@pisa.citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
- Subject: Re: Config says there's a floppy drive
- Date: 10 Nov 1992 16:56:44 GMT
- Organization: University of Michigan CITI
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- References: <1992Nov03.025610.15639@edsi.plexus.COM> <6699@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
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- In article <6699@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>, zzaascd@hpa.ee.man.ac.uk (Colin Dente) writes:
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- I have never noticed *any* high-level effect arising from the configuration
- set with CONFIG. I have used systems with this information set completely
- haywire, but nothing seemed to care. *Does* anything actually use this
- information?
-
- I know that if you install a 3com 505 ethernet board without the Apollo boot
- rom on it, and tell config you've got an ethernet, then auto-boot (little
- white button in normal mode) will fail.
-
- Speaking of which, I find it very annoying that machines won't auto-boot
- unless there is a keyboard plugged in. Are there any tricks I can play with
- config to make this work?
-