Thanks for the Help Everyone,
I'm sure I'll get it working, and with the good experiences that I've had
in my 2 days on this mailing list, compared with my year spent working
with linux, I'm sure i'll be ordering those CD's soon, especially because
of the wicked stickers... but not until I dig myself out of this starving
student rut I'm in right now :) (*cough* *cough* Students Discount
*cough*)

Tnx Everyone!
Andre

>>
>> One day in a fit of rage I threw away all my Floppies... (I got really
>> upset at them, I kept losing important things because they sucked!) I
have
>> a burner so If it turns out that this system can boot from the CD-Rom
>> (Pretty sure it can) I'm gonna go with the cdrom30.fs method... but I
have
>> no idea how to burn that file to the CD, and make it bootable.. anyone
>> here who can tell me how to do it with like Nero or something?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Andre
>
>I can relate... I got my CD burner shortly after going out to a
>client with a seven diskette upgrade...and having disk 3 bad. Left,
>returned with disk 3 remade...disk 5 was bad...name brand Sony
>disks... $500 2x burner was in place shortly afterwards.
>
>Nero is easy...choose "CDROM (boot)" from the "New Compilation", use
>CDROMxx.fs as a boot image, tell Nero it is a 2.88M floppy image, add
>the rest of your files, burn. Yes, Nero uses a dd-compatable image
>file. Very smooth.
>
>
>Adaptec/whatevertheyarenow Easy-CD is a little more interesting...it
>must read the boot image from a real floppy. Unpatched Windows 9x
>will crash after looking at an OpenBSD boot disk (a friend of mine
>called this a "feature" of OpenBSD 8-), W2k won't. Still gotta find
>yourself a 2.88M drive and disk floppy to use CDROMxx.fs, (though you
>can also use floppy*.fs) and this is what you are trying to avoid.
>
>In the Unix world, bootable CDRs from disk images are pretty much
>standard in mkisofs. Go figure out your own command line (i.e., I can
>never remember it, I have to sit down with the man page and paper and
>pencil every time. 8-)
>
>And, I'd be remiss if I didn't point out our #1 favorite way of
>getting a bootable CDROM:
> http://www.openbsd.org/orders.html
>However, if your experience is like mine, shortly after you make your
>own CDR, you will order up a CD set just to support this fine project
>(and the stickers...and the cool graphics... 8-)
>
>Nick.
>--
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