Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:41:11 -0000 From: "Lawrence Farr" <freebsd-net@epcdirect.co.uk> To: <stable@freebsd.org> Cc: "'John Baldwin'" <jhb@freebsd.org>, <qa@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: New cdboot ISO available Message-ID: <000d01c199ed$3b0fbab0$c806a8c0@lfarr> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.020110015947.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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Is this used by the make release scripts? Lawrence Farr EPC Direct Limited > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of John Baldwin > Sent: 10 January 2002 10:00 > To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG; qa@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: New cdboot ISO available > > > A new experimental CD bootstrap was recently added to -stable > for the i386 > architecture that allows the full contents of the CD to be > used when booting. > The method we currently uses relies on the BIOS emulating a > floppy drive from a > floppy image file on the CD. This limits the size of the > kernel that we can > boot off of. The new CD bootstrap allows a full GENERIC > kernel to be used when > booting off of a CD, allowing more drivers to work out of the > box. However, > not all BIOS's that support the older method support this > newer method of CD > booting. > > The release engineering team would like feedback as to > roughly how many > machines do not work with the new bootstrap utility as well > as how many > machines do work. If most machines work with the new > bootstrap, then we may > switch to using the new bootstrap on the release ISO images. > > Note that this only affects booting directly from the CD. > Booting from > floppies and then installing off of the CD will work the same > with both images. > > The cdboot image can be found at > ftp://releng4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES /4.5-RC1-cdboot.iso The MD5 checksum of the image is: MD5 (4.5-RC1-cdboot.iso) = 294c50cdfe77f51b8224ae9679afeabf This new bootstrap utility is used on Windows NT 4, Windows ME, and Windows 2000 CD's (and probably Windows XP CD's), so if your system has a 'Designed for' sticker featuring one of those operating systems, it will probably work with cdboot. Please test this ISO and provide feedback to the -stable or -qa lists thanks. RC1 x86 cdboot Errata : 1. The kernel configuration tool USERCONFIG does not currently work on the cdboot ISO. Thanks! - The FreeBSD 4.5 Release Engineering Team To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message
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