From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 29 8:43:16 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 693BB37B401 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 08:43:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from zephir.primus.ca (mail.tor.primus.ca [216.254.136.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09ACF43E9C for ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 08:43:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from leth@primus.ca) Received: from host-220-motivus.t1.primus.ca ([216.254.164.220]) by zephir.primus.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #16) id 18HoER-0007BQ-0A; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 11:43:11 -0500 Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 11:43:12 -0500 (EST) From: Jason Hunt X-X-Sender: leth@lethargic.dyndns.org To: Fixer Corp Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: El Torito In-Reply-To: <3DE79DB4.E9F92BBC@fixer.com> Message-ID: <20021129113254.Y84905-100000@lethargic.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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, 29 Nov 2002, 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. > Well, check around your BIOS for the setting that modifies what order the PC tries to boot off of different devices. You may be able to have it boot off of the CD-ROM. If not, you can use two floppys disks in order to boot the installer. Check Section 2.2.7 of http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html for instructions on how to do this. Also, you will probably find the FreeBSD Handbook very useful if you are new to FreeBSD. It is available online at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html or /usr/share/doc/en/books/handbook/index.html once you have a FreeBSD system installed. Hope this helps. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message