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Date:      Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:41:12 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr>
Cc:        Pierre-Luc Drouin <pldrouin@pldrouin.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp?
Message-ID:  <87tytoepl3.fsf@kobe.laptop>
In-Reply-To: <4B732695.5080701@otenet.gr> (Manolis Kiagias's message of "Wed,  10 Feb 2010 23:35:17 %2B0200")
References:  <4B7320DA.2080606@pldrouin.net> <4B732695.5080701@otenet.gr>

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On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:35:17 +0200, Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> wrot=
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>On 10/02/2010 11:10 =CE=BC.=CE=BC., Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
>> I would like to create a boot CD using FreeBSD 8.0 but I just noticed
>> that there is no existing boot.flp file for 8.0. What is the
>> alternative to get a boot image to create my CD image?
>
> You just use the boot/cdboot file from the official CD/DVD, like this
> (to write to a DVD)

FWIW, cdboot is also available at /boot of an already installed system
and it's built as part of the buildworld process, so you don't really
need to download a CD or DVD image to get it:

  % ls -l /boot/cd*
  -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  1201 Feb  6 01:33 /boot/cdboot




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