Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 13:22:38 +0100 From: Martin Nilsson <martin@mullet.se> To: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x Message-ID: <3FFD4B8E.6050102@mullet.se> In-Reply-To: <20040107235737.I32227@pooker.samsco.home> References: <20040107235737.I32227@pooker.samsco.home>
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Scott Long wrote: > FreeBSD/i386 is the only port left that generates install floppies. > Their primary purpose is to fascilitate installing FreeBSD on systems > where a CDROM is either not available or is incompatible with the > 'Non-Emulated El Torito' boot method that we use on our CDs. Systems that > cannot boot these CDs are typically those that are also not certified for > WinNT4, Win2K, or WinXP. Thus, nearly all machines produced after 1997 > can boot our CDs. Are you aware that the FreeBSD CD:s (both 4.9 & 5.2) are not bootable on a CD-ROM connected via USB? Both try to boot but hangs somewhere in the loader. This is on our P4 Supermicro serverboards. As usual Win2K, 2K3 & RedHat just works. An external USB2.0 connected Asus CD-RW drive (52x/24x/52x) with power supply costs about $70 so this is really nothing expensive or fancy today. If anybody can give me directions on how to debug this I'm willing to help. /Martin -- Martin Nilsson, CTO & Founder, Mullet Scandinavia AB, Malmö, SWEDEN E-mail: martin@mullet.se, Phone: +46-(0)708-606170, http://www.mullet.se Our business is well engineered servers optimized for FreeBSD and Linux.
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