Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 17:19:20 +0100 From: "DI. Christian Gusenbauer" <Christian.Gusenbauer@utimaco.co.at> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Christian.Gusenbauer@safeconcept.utimaco.co.at Subject: Re: cdrom boot? Message-ID: <32932F88.6862@utimaco.co.at>
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> At the least it would be very cool to just have a floppy with boot code on > it to bring up a bootable cd. This would solve a lot of space issues when > it comes to installing. Imagine a kernel with all the toys in it instead > of 'the usual'. > > Andrew Make a DOS bootable floppy, copy fbsdboot.exe on it, edit autoexec.bat and add a line like "fbsdboot -C -D f:\kernel" (f = CD-ROM drive) and that's it. I was able to boot from the second CD of the 2.0.5 release like that. Maybe you need some options more to get fbsdboot running, I can't remember which options I used. Christian. -- Christian Gusenbauer Christian.Gusenbauer@utimaco.co.at
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