Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 22:06:48 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: cdrom boot? Message-ID: <199611192106.WAA09300@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199611191016.LAA03849@freebie.lemis.de> from Greg Lehey at "Nov 19, 96 11:16:57 am"
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As Greg Lehey wrote: > I think it's about time that the FreeBSD core team began paying some > attention to the things which will gain acceptability of FreeBSD when > compared to other free UNIXes. If you count me as a member of the core team, then we do. :) But please, don't expect us to do all the work ourselves -- we would never get ready. I've got the El Torito bootable CD-ROM specification (though most of it is basically crap to pull the Ancient Obosolete Program Loader (TM) into the era of CD-ROM booting), and i remember that i've been discussing the details and my opinions with someone who seemed to be interested in tackling this down. Alas, i've never heard anything back (even though i offered to be the Guinea Pig for tests including burning a couple of CD-Rs). I can dump you the entire mail discussion if you're going to make some code out of this. But please, don't only discuss it, _do it_! (Of course, i gotta dig up this mail, and get the permission of the person i've been talking with to forward the private mails first. So i will only do it if you ensure us that we'll see the first bootable CD-ROM in say 2 months from you.) This offer is of course not only to Greg, but to anybody else who is _seriously_ interested in this. Bootable CD-ROMs are not a project that requires yet another 50-soul mailing list first, but it requires a person who's a) interested, and b) capable of doing this work. The latter requires a good understanding of the various low-level PeeCee BIOS int 0x13 stuff (including reference material like Van Gilluwe), plus some knowledge in ix86 assembler programming, and preferably also a CD-R drive. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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