From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 8 04:22:44 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FA6716A4CE; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 04:22:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.svenskabutiker.se (ns.svenskabutiker.se [212.247.101.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3C5143D31; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 04:22:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from martin@mullet.se) Received: from mullet.se (h118n1fls31o985.telia.com [213.65.16.118]) by mail.svenskabutiker.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA217377AA; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 13:22:39 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <3FFD4B8E.6050102@mullet.se> Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 13:22:38 +0100 From: Martin Nilsson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: sv, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Long References: <20040107235737.I32227@pooker.samsco.home> In-Reply-To: <20040107235737.I32227@pooker.samsco.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 06:43:19 -0800 cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 12:22:44 -0000 Scott Long wrote: > FreeBSD/i386 is the only port left that generates install floppies. > Their primary purpose is to fascilitate installing FreeBSD on systems > where a CDROM is either not available or is incompatible with the > 'Non-Emulated El Torito' boot method that we use on our CDs. Systems that > cannot boot these CDs are typically those that are also not certified for > WinNT4, Win2K, or WinXP. Thus, nearly all machines produced after 1997 > can boot our CDs. Are you aware that the FreeBSD CD:s (both 4.9 & 5.2) are not bootable on a CD-ROM connected via USB? Both try to boot but hangs somewhere in the loader. This is on our P4 Supermicro serverboards. As usual Win2K, 2K3 & RedHat just works. An external USB2.0 connected Asus CD-RW drive (52x/24x/52x) with power supply costs about $70 so this is really nothing expensive or fancy today. If anybody can give me directions on how to debug this I'm willing to help. /Martin -- Martin Nilsson, CTO & Founder, Mullet Scandinavia AB, Malmö, SWEDEN E-mail: martin@mullet.se, Phone: +46-(0)708-606170, http://www.mullet.se Our business is well engineered servers optimized for FreeBSD and Linux.