From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 29 17:13:38 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 C211237B401 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 17:13:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 775E243E4A for ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 17:13:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id CB75451918; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 11:43:32 +1030 (CST) Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 11:43:32 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Fixer Corp Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: El Torito Message-ID: <20021130011332.GF17834@wantadilla.lemis.com> 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/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 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 Friday, 29 November 2002 at 10:02:45 -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. There are no differences in the requirements for 4.0 and 4.7. El Torito is not a CD-ROM option, it's the standard for booting from CD-ROM. If your computer can boot from CD-ROM, then the BIOS has El Torito support. If you can't boot from CD-ROM, buying a new CD-ROM drive won't help. Instead, as others have suggested, make some boot floppies. Either way, the installation is exactly the same as it was for 4.0. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message