From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 31 7:37:36 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 E9D0E37B403 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 07:37:31 -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 f9VFbUR26941 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:37:30 +0100 Received: from roman.mobil.cz ([10.2.0.89]) by ester.mobil.cz (Lotus Domino Release 5.0.7) with ESMTP id 2001103116341185:1096 ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:34:11 +0100 Received: (from roman@localhost) by roman.mobil.cz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9VFgHh56903 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:42:17 +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 16:42:17 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BootImage on InstallCD Message-ID: <20011031164217.Q9584@roman.mobil.cz> Mail-Followup-To: questions@freebsd.org References: <20011031160954.P9584@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 04:34:12 PM, Serialize by Router on ester/Mobil(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 10/31/2001 04:34:18 PM, Serialize complete at 10/31/2001 04:34:18 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 16:17:08 +0100 (CET) > From: Alex Fuchsstadt > To: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: BootImage on InstallCD > > 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: Ah, ok. Well, AFAIK you're out of luck, since IIRC the reason there is one 2.88 and two 1.44 images is the fact that the stuff required to boot it has grown too much to fit into a single 1.44 image. > > > 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 4:40PM up 8 days, 3:23, 14 users, load averages: 0.33, 0.20, 0.14 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message