On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 10:02:45AM -0700, Fixer Corp wrote: > I just pruchased FreeBSD 4.7. It requires a CDROM with El Torito > support. My computer was purchased in 1998 and the owners manual does > not say anything about El Torito. When I upgraded to FreeBSD 4.0, it > did not support my Sony CDROM, so I bought an ATAPI CDROM. > > There is no way I'm purchasing a new computer so I can run version 4.7. > > If you know of any workarounds. Please let me know.
Grab the floppy images from eg. ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.7-RELEASE/floppies/ (They're also available on your CDROMs: I think they're in the /floppies directory on the 1st disk) and make some bootable floppies as described in the Handbook, Section 2.13.3 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-diff-media.html You boot from the floppy disks, and then stick your CD in the drive and actually do the install from there. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
