From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 14 14:57: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail12.speakeasy.net (mail12.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6610C37B419 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 14:56:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 13069 invoked from network); 14 Jan 2002 22:56:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail12.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 14 Jan 2002 22:56:42 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200201142232.JAA08137@lightning.itga.com.au> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 14:56:02 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Gregory Bond Subject: Re: New cdboot ISO available Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, "Richard S. Conto" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 14-Jan-02 Gregory Bond wrote: >> You can always boot off of boot floppies by making kern.flp and mfsroot.flp >> images. It's just that the kernel running during install might be stripped >> down and thus might not have support for some newer devices. > > Which hardly seems fatal, as any system with those "newer devices" orta have > a > BIOS compatible with cdboot (and w2k) in the first place. Yes, but then who do you target the ISO at? I'm trying to judge how widely used the older machines are and if we should still use boot.flp on the ISO's to accomodate them. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message