Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 09:19:46 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Paul Shi <shihang@hkusua.hku.hk> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0.5 Release Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1001040847230.4840@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20100104132359.GA96879@ozzmosis.com> References: <ea6713a21001040432u3b913790t8dbccfb12eb4a729@mail.gmail.com> <20100104132359.GA96879@ozzmosis.com>
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On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, andrew clarke wrote: > > I don't think the very early releases available on CD are bootable. > Not many PCs in the mid-1990s supported booting from CD. CD-ROM > drives weren't very common and those that did exist often had > non-standard interfaces that required special drivers to work - which > meant the BIOS couldn't see them to boot from them. > > To install FreeBSD 2.x, if I recall correctly you need to write the > FreeBSD diskette images (in the /floppies/ directory) to diskettes, > then boot from the first install diskette, while having the > installation CD in the CD drive. You may need to RTFM a bit to get > this working. > > ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/2.0.5-RELEASE/INSTALL "El Torito" bootable CDs boot from a floppy image on the CD. (This is what happened earlier; the CD software used cheaply-licensed DR-DOS floppy image to boot and load IDE CD-ROM drivers. Not quite the right thing, but it meant well.) So it's possible to create another CD using the original, but adding the first FreeBSD floppy as a boot image. mkisofs has the -b option for this; I don't recall details for Nero but seems like I've seen it. FreeBSD 2 may not like that configuration. Still might be easier to try than finding a floppy drive. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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