Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 16:10:47 -0600 From: AL Grant <agrant@runbox.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org, qa@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: New cdboot ISO available Message-ID: <3C3E1167.5080302@runbox.com> References: <XFMail.020110015947.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John Baldwin wrote: >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 > > > Hello, I have tried to download this program 3 times and it will never finish the download. The first time I got 660171KB and it quit then I got 660170KB and it quit. Just now I tried again and it got 660168KB and quit. Every time it shows 99% complete. I have checked the program against the checksum to make sure that it was not finished and the download program was not just misreporting the size. Is this a problem with my system or is there a problem with the file? Thanks, A.L.Grant To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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