From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 31 7: 5:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mobil.cz (diana.mobil.cz [195.39.16.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7905A37B401 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 07:05:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from ester.mobil.cz (ester.mobil.cz [194.213.62.23]) by mobil.cz (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f9VF59R21826 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:05:09 +0100 Received: from roman.mobil.cz ([10.2.0.89]) by ester.mobil.cz (Lotus Domino Release 5.0.7) with ESMTP id 2001103116014925:1066 ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:01:49 +0100 Received: (from roman@localhost) by roman.mobil.cz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9VF9ts55802 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:09:55 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from neuhauser@mobil.cz) X-Authentication-Warning: roman.mobil.cz: roman set sender to neuhauser@mobil.cz using -f Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:09:54 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BootImage on InstallCD Message-ID: <20011031160954.P9584@roman.mobil.cz> Mail-Followup-To: questions@freebsd.org References: <20011031153315.O9584@roman.mobil.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on ester/Mobil(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 10/31/2001 04:01:49 PM, Serialize by Router on ester/Mobil(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 10/31/2001 04:01:57 PM, Serialize complete at 10/31/2001 04:01:57 PM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:59:31 +0100 (CET) > From: Alex Fuchsstadt > To: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: BootImage on InstallCD > > I know that on the CD are bootfloppy images, that's the reason why I > asked for putting them on the InstallCD, for not building bootfloppies, > but using the CD with an 1.44MByte bootimage, to boot directly. I'm having > a notebook with exchangable floppy and CD, which makes it more complicated > to boot from floppy and continue installation from CD. This notebook > doesn't support 2.88MByte flpppies. > BYE/2 Alex I'm afraid I don't quite understand. I have certainly never installed FreeBSD on a notebook, but both the 4.3 CD, and the first and second CDs from the 4.4 set are bootable. At least that's how I've always installed it: put the CD in the drive, make sure the CDROM is the first boot device, and boot up. -- FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE 4:07PM up 8 days, 2:50, 14 users, load averages: 0.38, 0.23, 0.18 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message