From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 20 08:21:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA14293 for current-outgoing; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 08:21:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from jupiter.planet.co.at (jupiter.planet.co.at [193.170.249.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA14117 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 08:20:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from safeconcept.utimaco.co.at (safeconcept.utimaco.co.at [193.170.249.226]) by jupiter.planet.co.at (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id RAA06698 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 17:18:38 +0100 Received: from christian (christian.utimaco.co.at [10.0.0.39]) by safeconcept.utimaco.co.at (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA02891; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 17:18:45 +0100 Message-ID: <32932F88.6862@utimaco.co.at> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 17:19:20 +0100 From: "DI. Christian Gusenbauer" Organization: Utimaco Safe-Concept X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org CC: Christian.Gusenbauer@safeconcept.utimaco.co.at Subject: Re: cdrom boot? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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