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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
>
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>
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



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