Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 08:24:30 -0500 From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> To: Paul Shi <shihang@hkusua.hku.hk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0.5 Release Message-ID: <a333b2be1001040524o400a516fi2f9bdacddaa9fd5d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <ea6713a21001040432u3b913790t8dbccfb12eb4a729@mail.gmail.com> References: <ea6713a21001040432u3b913790t8dbccfb12eb4a729@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 7:32 AM, Paul Shi <shihang@hkusua.hku.hk> wrote: > Dear All, > > I am looking for a FreeBSD release which is most similar to 4.4 BSD-Lite > and > I chose FreeBSD 2.0.5, the oldest release since 4.4 BSD-Lite. However, > after > downloading iso file from archive > > > ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/ > < > ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.3/ > > > > and burning to CDROM, it still will not boot from CDROM. The burning > process > should be fine since I just got it correctly as some of you may be aware. > So > I wondering if it is possible that the ISO file has been broken. Is there > any one who maintains older archive know the validity of ISO file. Thank > you > very much! > > Your sincerely, > Paul Shi > Electronic and Communication Engineering Senior > Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering > University of Hong Kong > Those first FreeBSD releases can NOT boot from present IDE or SATA CD-ROM drives but from older type drives such as previous Sound Blaster sound card attached CD-ROM drives which they are NOT IDE drives . Please check this issue . I do NOT know how to generate an .iso from those older FreeBSD sources to enable them to boot from IDE or SATA CD-ROM drives or from USB sticks . Perhaps you may start booting from floppies . The manual associated with FreeBSD 2.0.5 may contain information about booting from floppies . Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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