From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 10 21:41:16 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BCC01065670 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:41:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr (poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr [150.140.141.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8BE28FC15 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:41:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ceid.upatras.gr (unknown [10.1.0.143]) by poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8F39EB48C3; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:41:14 +0200 (EET) Received: from localhost (europa.ceid.upatras.gr [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40732160CAF; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:41:14 +0200 (EET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ceid.upatras.gr Received: from mail.ceid.upatras.gr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (europa.ceid.upatras.gr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Jx5YCHIcXVAs; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:41:14 +0200 (EET) Received: from kobe.laptop (ppp-94-64-250-36.home.otenet.gr [94.64.250.36]) by mail.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 075C5160C86; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:41:14 +0200 (EET) Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o1ALfDY3052776 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:41:13 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id o1ALfCOX052761; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:41:12 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Manolis Kiagias References: <4B7320DA.2080606@pldrouin.net> <4B732695.5080701@otenet.gr> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:41:12 +0200 In-Reply-To: <4B732695.5080701@otenet.gr> (Manolis Kiagias's message of "Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:35:17 +0200") Message-ID: <87tytoepl3.fsf@kobe.laptop> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.92 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Pierre-Luc Drouin , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:41:16 -0000 On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:35:17 +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrot= e: >On 10/02/2010 11:10 =CE=BC.=CE=BC., Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: >> I would like to create a boot CD using FreeBSD 8.0 but I just noticed >> that there is no existing boot.flp file for 8.0. What is the >> alternative to get a boot image to create my CD image? > > You just use the boot/cdboot file from the official CD/DVD, like this > (to write to a DVD) FWIW, cdboot is also available at /boot of an already installed system and it's built as part of the buildworld process, so you don't really need to download a CD or DVD image to get it: % ls -l /boot/cd* -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 1201 Feb 6 01:33 /boot/cdboot