From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 16 16:59:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from builder.freebsd.org (builder.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E53CA37B505 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 16:59:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EFC3132DE for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 16:58:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA02211; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 17:10:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200002170110.RAA02211@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Tom Bartol Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Thinkpad won't boot ISO image In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 16 Feb 2000 16:18:42 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 17:10:46 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > O.K. I've got a burner and boat loads of cheap media so no problem there. > One question though -- Once I've modified the sources as you've outlined > below, how do I make the bootable floppy image that gets written to the > CDR? Since we only care about getting to the point where the loader can read the disk image, it's actually pretty easy. Take the kern.flp file off the install CD, then say: vnconfig /dev/vn0 kern.flp mount /dev/vn0a /mnt umount /mnt vnconfig -u /dev/vn0 After that, you can create an almost empty CD, which should take very little time to burn... -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message