On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, andrew clarke wrote:
I don't think the very early releases available on CD are bootable.
Not many PCs in the mid-1990s supported booting from CD. CD-ROM
drives weren't very common and those that did exist often had
non-standard interfaces that required special drivers to work - which
meant the BIOS couldn't see them to boot from them.
To install FreeBSD 2.x, if I recall correctly you need to write the
FreeBSD diskette images (in the /floppies/ directory) to diskettes,
then boot from the first install diskette, while having the
installation CD in the CD drive. You may need to RTFM a bit to get
this working.
ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/2.0.5-RELEASE/INSTALL
"El Torito" bootable CDs boot from a floppy image on the CD.
(This is what happened earlier; the CD software used cheaply-licensed
DR-DOS floppy image to boot and load IDE CD-ROM drivers. Not quite the
right thing, but it meant well.)
So it's possible to create another CD using the original, but adding the
first FreeBSD floppy as a boot image. mkisofs has the -b option for
this; I don't recall details for Nero but seems like I've seen it.
FreeBSD 2 may not like that configuration. Still might be easier to try
than finding a floppy drive.
-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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