Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 17:10:46 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Thinkpad won't boot ISO image Message-ID: <200002170110.RAA02211@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Feb 2000 16:18:42 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002161610520.56320-100000@eccles.salk.edu>
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> O.K. I've got a burner and boat loads of cheap media so no problem there. > One question though -- Once I've modified the sources as you've outlined > below, how do I make the bootable floppy image that gets written to the > CDR? Since we only care about getting to the point where the loader can read the disk image, it's actually pretty easy. Take the kern.flp file off the install CD, then say: vnconfig /dev/vn0 kern.flp mount /dev/vn0a /mnt <dink with stuff on /mnt> umount /mnt vnconfig -u /dev/vn0 After that, you can create an almost empty CD, which should take very little time to burn... -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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