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Date:      Sun, 8 Jul 2001 05:44:56 -0600
From:      Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net>
To:        Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.3 iso installation image issues
Message-ID:  <20010708054455.A245319@mandy.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20010708001332.O72039-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com>; from "Joe Clarke" on Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 12:16:35AM
References:  <20010707200154.B164579@mandy.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca> <20010708001332.O72039-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com>

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On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 12:16:35AM -0400, Joe Clarke wrote:
> El Torrito, if memory serves me, is a chain of Mexican restaurants.  The
> El Torrito boot extensions for CDs were thought up there (or just named
> after it).  El Torrito isn't a CD format per se.  They're extensions for
> making a ISO-9660 CD bootable.

Ok, thanks! Now I know....
 
> That said, you may have a problem booting off of CD on a 486.  You should
> be able to mount the CD with a command like:
> 
> mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom
> 
> Just replace acd0c with whatever your CD device is.  If you have an entry
> in /etc/fstab, you could also just do "mount /cdrom" (or whatever your CD
> mountpoint is).  After that, you could dd the floppy images to floppies,
> and boot that way.

Paraphrasing /var/run/dmesg.boot I have:

wdc1 -> HDD Controller #2
|___ acd0 NEC (ATAPI) CD-ROM drive slot0
|___ acd1 slot1
|___ acd2 slot2
|___ acd3 slot3

Paraphrasing /etc/fstab I have:

/dev/acd0c -> /cdrom
/dev/acd1c -> /cdrom1
/dev/acd2c -> /cdrom2
/dev/acd3c -> /cdrom3

Yet when I did a 'mount /cdrom' the system went into a coma ;) I couldn't
get nothing out of the keyboard. I tried ^C; ^D; ^Z and anything else
that I could think of, but to no avail. I had to turn the power off --
yuk! BTW, /dev does have the above devices. So I thought it was because
of the El Torrito thing ;) Any ideas? TIA...
-- 
-duke
Calgary, Alberta, Canada


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