Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:41:12 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> Cc: Pierre-Luc Drouin <pldrouin@pldrouin.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp? Message-ID: <87tytoepl3.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <4B732695.5080701@otenet.gr> (Manolis Kiagias's message of "Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:35:17 %2B0200") References: <4B7320DA.2080606@pldrouin.net> <4B732695.5080701@otenet.gr>
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On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:35:17 +0200, Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> 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
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