From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 5:43:39 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 C317F37B401 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 05:43:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dns1.cics.co.za (dns1.cics.co.za [196.36.190.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56DBB43E8A for ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 05:43:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@netchat.co.za) Received: (qmail 49321 invoked by uid 85); 20 Oct 2002 12:42:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mark.igate.org.za) (196.15.196.5) by dns1.cics.co.za with SMTP; 20 Oct 2002 12:42:23 -0000 Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 14:41:48 +0200 From: Mark Pearce To: Kris Kennaway Cc: fquest@ccstores.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iso download bootable? In-Reply-To: <20021020042932.GB15169@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20021020042932.GB15169@xor.obsecurity.org> Organization: Netchat X-Mailer: Something I found Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Message-Id: <20021020124332.56DBB43E8A@mx1.FreeBSD.org> 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 Sat, 19 Oct 2002 21:29:32 -0700 Someone helped Kris Kennaway scratch the following: > On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 07:32:33PM -0700, FreeBSD questions wrote: > > I have downloaded the .iso's and am having a problem creating > > a bootable disk 1. > > > > Since the .iso's are on my hard drive, is there any way to convert > > them to whatever format I need to boot directly from the images > > without burning anything? (disk 2 thru 4 seem OK so I'm really > > just talking about the conversion of disk 1 if possible) I would suggest mounting the iso file with vnconfig and then sharing that directory with either nfs or ftp on another server, that way you don't need to burn any cd's. Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message