From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 4 13:24:37 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98F3C1065695 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 2010 13:24:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f227.google.com (mail-fx0-f227.google.com [209.85.220.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 273078FC27 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 2010 13:24:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm27 with SMTP id 27so702947fxm.3 for ; Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:24:31 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=isF8cKM74ksyEedPJwX0405kGB+9YS1uHIpAa0y5VD8=; b=VxFfu0pfUwiWdW5XdcfrkFX1BCcE9T2eOVgEGazYhWePllASRE7FzO1NVFu3jvCtvx cHxw3/vUnrXLhfhuwpByL0ix1Vc5kUL2w8FarTUZPqXCG1P9BrfppXmTJBn1ElATXdQK wbJgvpl0O8/vGRjOjvDK6gBdq82z4mjnE6cPw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=LVwoi+rw4AM5m9qYwloPvE/Yfq5ss3FH0l3kldPZC50FnOL9Pr5MdjpLyJDpvv6Ovx OowesM3ZqFh6wl8XsN3e4h5d5L/vr9uAy+eS7M29b1wZFtu2aS8Q7OylbH7zA7udc6po jHtkFQu32S1Yyjc5H44VtkchE4RG1r+l4c1Ew= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.156.14 with SMTP id k14mr597805hbc.181.1262611470653; Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:24:30 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 08:24:30 -0500 Message-ID: From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk To: Paul Shi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0.5 Release X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:24:37 -0000 On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 7:32 AM, Paul Shi 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