On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 10:20:21AM +1100, Gregory Bond wrote:
> > Yes, but then who do you target the ISO at? I'm trying to judge how widely
> > used the older machines are and if we should still use boot.flp on the ISO's
> > to
> > accomodate them.
>
> It depends on the nature and ubiquity of
> Yes, but then who do you target the ISO at? I'm trying to judge how widely
> used the older machines are and if we should still use boot.flp on the ISO's
> to
> accomodate them.
It depends on the nature and ubiquity of the "newer devices" that get dropped
off kern.flp. If we get to the stage
On 14-Jan-02 Gregory Bond wrote:
>> You can always boot off of boot floppies by making kern.flp and mfsroot.flp
>> images. It's just that the kernel running during install might be stripped
>> down and thus might not have support for some newer devices.
>
> Which hardly seems fatal, as any syst
Andrew MacIntyre wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Kent Stewart wrote:
>
>
I have a ECS K7S5A that booted but sysinstall was completely hung. I
had to hit the reset button to reboot.
>>>Hmmm, that is weird. I assume it doesn't hang with the normal ISO image?
>>>
>>It boots the
> You can always boot off of boot floppies by making kern.flp and mfsroot.flp
> images. It's just that the kernel running during install might be stripped
> down and thus might not have support for some newer devices.
Which hardly seems fatal, as any system with those "newer devices" orta have a
On 14-Jan-02 Richard S. Conto wrote:
> Dell Inspiron 3000, Phoenix BIOS 4.0 Release 6.0
> Copyright 1985-1997
> Build 06/09/98 09:42:22
> Inspiron 3000 KM200ST Rev A05
> Keyboard BIOS Rev A01
>
> Worked OK, got into the inst
'boots on laptop DELL Latitude C600 !
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> How is 5 megabytes for you? We really just need to test the cdboot
> loader, so I think this will work fine :
>
> releng4.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/
> 4.5-RC1-minicdboot.iso
It works fine on:-
Dell Inspiron 8100, 3COM 1
On 12-Jan-2002 Murray Stokely wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 04:12:21PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote:
> > > Any chance of an ISO that is smaller, just for testing the CD boot thing?
> >
> > Murray, would you mind a smaller image? Basically a miniinst.iso with no
>
>How is 5 megabytes for
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 04:12:21PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote:
> > Any chance of an ISO that is smaller, just for testing the CD boot thing?
>
> Murray, would you mind a smaller image? Basically a miniinst.iso with no
How is 5 megabytes for you? We really just need to test the cdboot
loader,
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
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