Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:42:17 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BootImage on InstallCD Message-ID: <20011031164217.Q9584@roman.mobil.cz> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10110311610540.24709-100000@ns.plaut.de> References: <20011031160954.P9584@roman.mobil.cz> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10110311610540.24709-100000@ns.plaut.de>
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> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:17:08 +0100 (CET)
> From: Alex Fuchsstadt <afuchs@Plaut.de>
> To: questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: BootImage on InstallCD
>
> The CDs are defnitly bootable, last one I tied was 4.3 release, but
> the image is 2.88Mbyte, which most motherboards support, but not all,
> especially not Notebooks and older boards. I'd really appreciate it to put
> 1.44MByte bootimages to the installCD.
> BYE/2 Alex
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
Ah, ok. Well, AFAIK you're out of luck, since IIRC the reason there
is one 2.88 and two 1.44 images is the fact that the stuff required
to boot it has grown too much to fit into a single 1.44 image.
> > > Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:59:31 +0100 (CET)
> > > From: Alex Fuchsstadt <afuchs@Plaut.de>
> > > To: questions@freebsd.org
> > > Subject: Re: BootImage on InstallCD
> > >
> > > I know that on the CD are bootfloppy images, that's the reason why I
> > > asked for putting them on the InstallCD, for not building bootfloppies,
> > > but using the CD with an 1.44MByte bootimage, to boot directly. I'm having
> > > a notebook with exchangable floppy and CD, which makes it more complicated
> > > to boot from floppy and continue installation from CD. This notebook
> > > doesn't support 2.88MByte flpppies.
> > > BYE/2 Alex
> >
> > I'm afraid I don't quite understand. I have certainly never
> > installed FreeBSD on a notebook, but both the 4.3 CD, and the first
> > and second CDs from the 4.4 set are bootable. At least that's how
> > I've always installed it: put the CD in the drive, make sure the
> > CDROM is the first boot device, and boot up.
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