Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 00:16:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 4.3 iso installation image issues Message-ID: <20010708001332.O72039-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20010707200154.B164579@mandy.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca>
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El Torrito, if memory serves me, is a chain of Mexican restaurants. The El Torrito boot extensions for CDs were thought up there (or just named after it). El Torrito isn't a CD format per se. They're extensions for making a ISO-9660 CD bootable. That said, you may have a problem booting off of CD on a 486. You should be able to mount the CD with a command like: mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom Just replace acd0c with whatever your CD device is. If you have an entry in /etc/fstab, you could also just do "mount /cdrom" (or whatever your CD mountpoint is). After that, you could dd the floppy images to floppies, and boot that way. Joe Clarke On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Duke Normandin wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 05:13:00PM -0400, Joe Clarke wrote: > > I have done this numerous times in the past using Adaptec Easy CD Creator, > > and it works like a champ. I just double-click on the ISO image. I think > > the trick might be selecting the option to Close the Disc. I've burned > > FreeBSD images on Windows NT, 95, 2000, and Mac OS 8. I never had to > > select the format of the media. The ISO file contained all the necessary > > info. > > > > Joe Clarke > > Sorry to butt in, but I have a related question. > > A friend sent me a CD he burnt for 4.2R - El Torrito bootable format. > What is El Torrito format? > > As well, I'm running 3.3R at the moment on a 486-66 /850M HDD. I have a > CD changer that is recognized by 3.3R. However when I load this 4.2R CD > I can't seem to mount it to have a look. I don't think that my old system > is capable of booting off a CDROM drive, so I was looking for some other > way to perhaps use this 4.2R CD. Takes a while to molt out of this newbie > skin of mine... ;) Thanks.... > -- > -duke > Calgary, Alberta, Canada > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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