From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 8 10:10:25 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADB7B106566B for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2011 10:10:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from tower.berklix.org (tower.berklix.org [83.236.223.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 391488FC0A for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2011 10:10:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from park.js.berklix.net (pD9FBE203.dip.t-dialin.net [217.251.226.3]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id p78AAMEn028885; Mon, 8 Aug 2011 10:10:23 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by park.js.berklix.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p78AAEiB007637; Mon, 8 Aug 2011 12:10:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p78AAL9k011194; Mon, 8 Aug 2011 10:10:31 GMT (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <201108081010.p78AAL9k011194@fire.js.berklix.net> To: perryh@pluto.rain.com From: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: http://www.berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://www.berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://www.berklix.com In-reply-to: Your message "Sun, 07 Aug 2011 22:24:15 PDT." <4e3f72ff.ULPqV8KTN/ScPv1i%perryh@pluto.rain.com> Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:10:21 +0200 Sender: jhs@berklix.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.2-RELEASE/floppies/ X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 10:10:25 -0000 perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > "Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > > > With no USB boot, No CD (except maybe pcmcia cdrom & that > > too would need a floppy to start it, Even PL-IP would need > > a floppy to start with. > .. > > Sure I have other better machines, but this spare old laptop > > makes a nice spare X screen ... > > Provided the machine has USB, This laptop does not, but I noticed it has a SCSI on the expansion port, I'd better try that. > this http://www.plop.at/ will > boot the memstick (at least, it works for me with 8.1). Thanks, There's a lot of various software there, I guess you mean http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html#features I'll come back to that after trying to build some boot native FreeBSD boot floppies. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below, not above; Indent with "> "; Cumulative like a play script. Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable.