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
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Martin Nilsson, CTO & Founder, Mullet Scandinavia AB, Malmö, SWEDEN
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