Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 08:34:56 -0800 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@dsl-only.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: El Torito Message-ID: <20021129163456.GA7643@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> In-Reply-To: <3DE79DB4.E9F92BBC@fixer.com> References: <3DE79DB4.E9F92BBC@fixer.com>
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On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 10:02:45AM -0700, Fixer Corp wrote: > I just pruchased FreeBSD 4.7. It requires a CDROM with El Torito > support. My computer was purchased in 1998 and the owners manual does > not say anything about El Torito. When I upgraded to FreeBSD 4.0, it > did not support my Sony CDROM, so I bought an ATAPI CDROM. > > There is no way I'm purchasing a new computer so I can run version 4.7. > > If you know of any workarounds. Please let me know. > > Bruce Meehl > bruce@fixer.com My guess is that it only required El Torito if you plan to boot from the CDROM itself. If for some reason your PC does not support booting from a CDROM then you could simply donwload the necessary boot floppies from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.7-RELEASE/floppies/, boot the machine, follow the normal procedures and when prompted from where you would like to install FreeBSD, select CDROM. Nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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