From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 29 8:39:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 888DC37B407 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 08:39:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9B3643E4A for ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 08:39:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1]) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gATGctQf066917 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 16:38:55 GMT (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost) by happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gATGcovD066912 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 16:38:50 GMT Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 16:38:50 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: El Torito Message-ID: <20021129163850.GC65748@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3DE79DB4.E9F92BBC@fixer.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DE79DB4.E9F92BBC@fixer.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01, USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.43 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 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. Grab the floppy images from eg. ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.7-RELEASE/floppies/ (They're also available on your CDROMs: I think they're in the /floppies directory on the 1st disk) and make some bootable floppies as described in the Handbook, Section 2.13.3 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-diff-media.html You boot from the floppy disks, and then stick your CD in the drive and actually do the install from there. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message