From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 4 16:19:47 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 7DE0C106568F for ; Mon, 4 Jan 2010 16:19:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36A728FC19 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 2010 16:19:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o04GJktf005072; Mon, 4 Jan 2010 09:19:46 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id o04GJkhX005069; Mon, 4 Jan 2010 09:19:46 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 09:19:46 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: andrew clarke In-Reply-To: <20100104132359.GA96879@ozzmosis.com> Message-ID: References: <20100104132359.GA96879@ozzmosis.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 04 Jan 2010 09:19:46 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Paul Shi 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 16:19:47 -0000 On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, andrew clarke wrote: > > I don't think the very early releases available on CD are bootable. > Not many PCs in the mid-1990s supported booting from CD. CD-ROM > drives weren't very common and those that did exist often had > non-standard interfaces that required special drivers to work - which > meant the BIOS couldn't see them to boot from them. > > To install FreeBSD 2.x, if I recall correctly you need to write the > FreeBSD diskette images (in the /floppies/ directory) to diskettes, > then boot from the first install diskette, while having the > installation CD in the CD drive. You may need to RTFM a bit to get > this working. > > ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/2.0.5-RELEASE/INSTALL "El Torito" bootable CDs boot from a floppy image on the CD. (This is what happened earlier; the CD software used cheaply-licensed DR-DOS floppy image to boot and load IDE CD-ROM drivers. Not quite the right thing, but it meant well.) So it's possible to create another CD using the original, but adding the first FreeBSD floppy as a boot image. mkisofs has the -b option for this; I don't recall details for Nero but seems like I've seen it. FreeBSD 2 may not like that configuration. Still might be easier to try than finding a floppy drive. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA