From owner-freebsd-qa Thu Jan 10 7:41:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from paperboy.epcdirect.co.uk (paperboy.epcdirect.co.uk [195.10.242.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4CDB37B426; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 07:41:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by paperboy.epcdirect.co.uk (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g0AFfAg82654; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:41:10 GMT (envelope-from freebsd-net@epcdirect.co.uk) Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from lfarr (l-farr.int.epcdirect.co.uk [192.168.6.200]) by paperboy.epcdirect.co.uk (8.11.6/8.11.1av) with ESMTP id g0AFf7d82646; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:41:08 GMT (envelope-from freebsd-net@epcdirect.co.uk) From: "Lawrence Farr" To: Cc: "'John Baldwin'" , Subject: RE: New cdboot ISO available Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:41:11 -0000 Message-ID: <000d01c199ed$3b0fbab0$c806a8c0@lfarr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3311 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is this used by the make release scripts? Lawrence Farr EPC Direct Limited > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of John Baldwin > Sent: 10 January 2002 10:00 > To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG; qa@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: New cdboot ISO available > > > A new experimental CD bootstrap was recently added to -stable > for the i386 > architecture that allows the full contents of the CD to be > used when booting. > The method we currently uses relies on the BIOS emulating a > floppy drive from a > floppy image file on the CD. This limits the size of the > kernel that we can > boot off of. The new CD bootstrap allows a full GENERIC > kernel to be used when > booting off of a CD, allowing more drivers to work out of the > box. However, > not all BIOS's that support the older method support this > newer method of CD > booting. > > The release engineering team would like feedback as to > roughly how many > machines do not work with the new bootstrap utility as well > as how many > machines do work. If most machines work with the new > bootstrap, then we may > switch to using the new bootstrap on the release ISO images. > > Note that this only affects booting directly from the CD. > Booting from > floppies and then installing off of the CD will work the same > with both images. > > The cdboot image can be found at > ftp://releng4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES /4.5-RC1-cdboot.iso The MD5 checksum of the image is: MD5 (4.5-RC1-cdboot.iso) = 294c50cdfe77f51b8224ae9679afeabf This new bootstrap utility is used on Windows NT 4, Windows ME, and Windows 2000 CD's (and probably Windows XP CD's), so if your system has a 'Designed for' sticker featuring one of those operating systems, it will probably work with cdboot. Please test this ISO and provide feedback to the -stable or -qa lists thanks. RC1 x86 cdboot Errata : 1. The kernel configuration tool USERCONFIG does not currently work on the cdboot ISO. Thanks! - The FreeBSD 4.5 Release Engineering Team To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message