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Date:      Tue, 15 Jun 2004 12:58:44 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   trying to use a bootable cd on freebsd.
Message-ID:  <40CF54F4.4070201@freebsd.org>

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I have a cdrom from intel.
it boots into a standalone system for configuring their motherboard.
So far so good.

THe system I need to use it on doesn't have a cdrom.
but it DOES have a USB port and can boot of a USB drive.
It can also boot using PXE.

If I look on the cdrom I see nothing special.
Certainly no flpooy images or such...

How does this boot?

Can I extract something from this I can put on
a USB dongle to make it boot there instead?

Intell suggested I use  PXE over the net..
what do I export?


julian@julian:cd /cdrom
julian@julian:ls -la
total 57
dr-xr-xr-x   1 root  wheel   2048 Mar 25  2003 .
drwxr-xr-x  22 root  wheel   1024 Apr 14 04:08 ..
dr-xr-xr-x   1 root  wheel   2048 Nov 14  2002 ACROBAT
dr-xr-xr-x   1 root  wheel   2048 Feb 18  2003 DOCS
dr-xr-xr-x   1 root  wheel   2048 Mar 24  2003 Drivers
dr-xr-xr-x   1 root  wheel   4096 Mar 25  2003 SE7501BR2
dr-xr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  10240 Mar 19  2003 SMaRT
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  20480 Sep  5  2002 autorun.exe
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root  wheel     47 Sep  5  2002 autorun.inf
dr-xr-xr-x   1 root  wheel   2048 Mar 25  2003 diskimag
dr-xr-xr-x   1 root  wheel   6144 Jan 27  2003 images
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root  wheel   6577 Nov 14  2002 linux.htm
julian@julian:cd images
julian@julian:ls -la
total 94
dr-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   6144 Jan 27  2003 .
dr-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   2048 Mar 25  2003 ..
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     43 Mar 28  2002 HG.gif
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   1685 Apr 16  2002 additional_documents.gif
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   1077 Apr 16  2002 additional_documents_bar.gif
[...]
julian@julian:cd ../diskimag/
julian@julian:ls -a
.                               XLNT2022.exe
..                              XLNT2023.exe
1R1D1DI.EXE                     fms11_nw.exe
1R1D2DI.EXE                     fms11_uw.exe
7902_win.exe                    infinst_enu-4.30.1006.exe
BOOTDISK.EXE                    lnx6_2r3.exe
FBRV55BD.EXE                    nw-6_2.exe
NT-6_2_1.EXE                    raid1026.exe
NT-6_2_2.EXE                    rh73_13.exe
NW_13.EXE                       rh80_130.exe
README.TXT                      sl81_13.exe
SBR2V101.EXE                    unx-6_2.exe
Win_HR.EXE                      w2k-6_2.exe
XLNT2021.exe
julian@julian:


If I mount it differently I see:
umount /cdrom
julian# mount -ogens,nojoliet,extatt,norrip /cdrom
julian# ls -l /cdrom
total 48
dr-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   2048 Nov 14  2002 ACROBAT
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  20480 Sep  5  2002 AUTORUN.EXE
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     47 Sep  5  2002 AUTORUN.INF
dr-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   2048 Mar 25  2003 DISKIMAG
dr-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   2048 Feb 18  2003 DOCS
dr-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   2048 Mar 24  2003 DRIVERS
dr-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   4096 Jan 27  2003 IMAGES
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   6577 Nov 14  2002 LINUX.HTM
dr-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   2048 Mar 25  2003 SE7501BR
dr-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   8192 Mar 19  2003 SMART

(just in case there was some hidden file or something)

either way, how can I make this a bootable device of some other form?

is it possible?






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