From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 31 7:17:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.plaut.de (ns.plaut.de [194.99.75.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F3FB37B405 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 07:17:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (afuchs@localhost) by ns.plaut.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA24898 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:17:08 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from afuchs@ns.plaut.de) Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:17:08 +0100 (CET) From: Alex Fuchsstadt To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BootImage on InstallCD In-Reply-To: <20011031160954.P9584@roman.mobil.cz> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 The CDs are defnitly bootable, last one I tied was 4.3 release, but the image is 2.88Mbyte, which most motherboards support, but not all, especially not Notebooks and older boards. I'd really appreciate it to put 1.44MByte bootimages to the installCD. BYE/2 Alex On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message