On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 7:32 AM, Paul Shi <shih...@hkusua.hku.hk> wrote:
> Dear All, > > I am looking for a FreeBSD release which is most similar to 4.4 BSD-Lite > and > I chose FreeBSD 2.0.5, the oldest release since 4.4 BSD-Lite. However, > after > downloading iso file from archive > > > ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/ > < > ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.3/ > > > > and burning to CDROM, it still will not boot from CDROM. The burning > process > should be fine since I just got it correctly as some of you may be aware. > So > I wondering if it is possible that the ISO file has been broken. Is there > any one who maintains older archive know the validity of ISO file. Thank > you > very much! > > Your sincerely, > Paul Shi > Electronic and Communication Engineering Senior > Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering > University of Hong Kong > Those first FreeBSD releases can NOT boot from present IDE or SATA CD-ROM drives but from older type drives such as previous Sound Blaster sound card attached CD-ROM drives which they are NOT IDE drives . Please check this issue . I do NOT know how to generate an .iso from those older FreeBSD sources to enable them to boot from IDE or SATA CD-ROM drives or from USB sticks . Perhaps you may start booting from floppies . The manual associated with FreeBSD 2.0.5 may contain information about booting from floppies . Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
