From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 28 14:55:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from omta01.mta.everyone.net (sitemail.everyone.net [216.200.145.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BC0F37B720 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:55:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@sysmach.com) Received: from sitemail.everyone.net (reports [216.200.145.62]) by omta01.mta.everyone.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D22D1C38D6 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:55:27 -0800 (PST) Received: by sitemail.everyone.net (Postfix, from userid 99) id C192736F9; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:55:26 -0800 (PST) Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 4.104 (Entity 4.117) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:55:26 -0800 (PST) From: Kyle To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot Block help! Reply-To: freebsd@sysmach.com X-Originating-Ip: [204.196.181.88] Message-Id: <20010328225526.C192736F9@sitemail.everyone.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I dont know what exactly you are trying to do by copying flp files into CDs instead of floppies (correct me if i read this wrongly.) Anyway, I'll just share with you an experience i encountered. About the floppies, you got the .flp images .. then you need to use fdimage.exe(i assume you're on windows) to IMAGE it to the floppies. fdimage can be obtained from ftp.freebsd.org And about the CD, if you have a CD burner... then you could download the .iso file from freebsd.org's FTP server and burn it. then you could boot from it. good luck --- Rick Duvall > wrote: >Yeah, tried that. Seems nobody knows how to do it. The information I >found was to make an ISO with mkisofs with Rockridge extensions and El >Torito boot blocks. However, the El Torito needs a boot image (like >boot.flp) that is exactly 1.44 megs or 2.88.megs. So, I guess I am >confused.... How do I use mkisofs to mark a CD bootable, and not have to >write a .flp file to it? > >Thanks anyway for your input.... > >Sincerely, > >Rick Duvall > >On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Chen Xu wrote: > >> Rick, >> >> I never make a custom boot floppy myself, I just use the first install >> floppy to boot ( I do need to type things in). I recomend you check >> the mailing list archive to find out the way to make boot floppy. Then >> the only question is to put the same thing on CD and mark CD bootable. >> >> Chen >> >> * Rick Duvall [010328 17:07]: >> > Yes, I do want to make a boot floppy, sort of. Only, I want it on a CD >> > instead. >> > >> > How do I do that? >> > >> > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message _____________________________________________________________ Systems at MACHSPEED!! http://sysmach.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message