From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 14 14:32:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.itga.com.au (ns.itga.com.au [202.53.40.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0101837B405; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 14:32:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from lightning.itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by ns.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA31350; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 09:32:02 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from lightning.itga.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lightning.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA08137; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 09:32:02 +1100 (EST) Message-Id: <200201142232.JAA08137@lightning.itga.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 05/15/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 From: Gregory Bond To: John Baldwin Cc: "Richard S. Conto" , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New cdboot ISO available In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 14 Jan 2002 12:01:11 -0800. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 09:32:02 +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > You can always boot off of boot floppies by making kern.flp and mfsroot.flp > images. It's just that the kernel running during install might be stripped > down and thus might not have support for some newer devices. Which hardly seems fatal, as any system with those "newer devices" orta have a BIOS compatible with cdboot (and w2k) in the first place. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message