Subject: Re: NetBSD-2.0 Install CD does not boot on Dell
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/01/2005 21:36:35
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On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 01:46:46PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
  | On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 11:16:34AM +0100, Feico Dillema wrote:
  | > Except for those wanting to install recent NetBSD on old hardware.
  | > I'd like no-emulation, but will we need two i386 ISOs in thee future?
  | > One with and one without emulation?
  |=20
  | I'm not sure mkisofs handles CD boot menus yet, maybe we could put two =
boot
  | images on a single CD. Otherwise users of old, buggy BIOSes probably ha=
ve
  | floppy drives, so they can boot from floppy and then install from CD.

Another advantage of that solution is that it allows us to exceed two
floppies for the install kernel, since the current constraint is the
2.88MB limitation of the emulated floppy.

I have used an emulated hard disk image with mkisofs (32MB in size),
and that worked fine as well.  Are there systems which don't work with
this mode?

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