From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 19 18:13:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA24479 for current-outgoing; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 18:13:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA24463 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 18:13:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from crevenia.parc.xerox.com ([13.2.116.11]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <14620(13)>; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 17:58:07 PST Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by crevenia.parc.xerox.com with SMTP id <177557>; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 14:55:25 -0800 X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.7 5/3/96 To: Greg Lehey cc: erich@lodgenet.com (Eric L. Hernes), FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org (FreeBSD current users) Subject: Re: cdrom boot? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 19 Nov 1996 09:46:12 PST." <199611191746.SAA00462@freebie.lemis.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 14:55:13 PST From: Bill Fenner Message-Id: <96Nov19.145525pst.177557@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199611191746.SAA00462@freebie.lemis.de>you write: >... the impression that I got from the c't >article was that it was pretty straightforward. It looks reasonably straightforward. To boot from an emulated floppy, there's a little bit of glue, and then an image as a iso9660 file. We only need to use up cd space for the glue, since the file can just be boot.flp. There's also a "Boot in this manner from the CD" int13 function, so there could be a "bootcd.exe" in case the user's BIOS is a little weird. I stuck the postscript file in http://www.freebsd.org/~fenner/cdrom7.ps for anyone who doesn't have a PDF viewer. Bill