Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 22:35:59 -0400 (EDT) From: "Adam W. Hawks" <root@pent.vnet.net> To: Drew Derbyshire <ahd@kew.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: NEC and bootable CD-ROMS Message-ID: <XFMail.970630223757.root@pent.vnet.net> In-Reply-To: <199707010211.WAA04523@pandora.hh.kew.com>
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I've duplicated whole cd's with dd if=/dev/cd0c of=/usr/cd.img You could get the boot blocks/track out like that I would think. On 01-Jul-97 Drew Derbyshire wrote: >In reference to the QNX bootable floppy, my NEC Ready 9618 is quite >happy to boot off the IDE CD-ROM -- the recovery CD-ROM runs DOS >(gack!) to restore the hard drive back to the factory state. Any >clue how standard their method is and it is worth including the >proper boot blocks on the FreeBSD CD-ROM? It would be _real_ nice >to be able to boot a new or toasted FreeBSD system without going >into DOS Mode. > >I'll be happy to dump the first first blocks of the CD if an >interested party sends a command line (dd?) along to have me dump >it. > >-ahd- -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAzOl6OoAAAEEALvhjGsURxeru2XemXqWy/799eZzuGJ3jM20jE2jn9teVoHq 5inbFr/m1zFJl1x41Ni0oe8qLX36ekDy1goTDyOzeFEuXnTrGBsEXvNwF4S/T6K4 8TI2o7Qm4oB3nv5m4yP7sQFDP0u8thi/LLdDyR2eb8d5OBjd7eTueZeHCNXRAAUR tCBBZGFtIFcuIEhhd2tzIDxhd2hhd2tzQHZuZXQubmV0Pg== =TVj5 -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
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