Installing from FreeBSD-12.2-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso (2020-10-23) on a 32-bit Pentium-III>with 256MB of memory.
The hardware is a Sony Vaio Notebook Computer, model PDG-9332, circa 2000. It can boot older versions of Knoppix from DVD, but not FreeBSD i386 from DVD. (Its ancient BIOS cannot be told boot from a USB memory stick.)
Edit 2021-06-04: The DVD1 image is defective. Required boot programs are missing.
The DISK1 image is too big; it will not fit on a 704 MB CD blank. USB does not work for me.
Code:
CD Loader 1.2
Building the boot loader arguments
Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... Found
Relocating the loader and the BTX
Starting the BTX loader
BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.02
Consoles: internal video/keyboard
BIOS CD is cd0
BIOS drive A: is fd0
BIOS drive C: is disk0
BIOS 637kB/261056kB available memory
FreeBSD/x86 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
ERROR: cannot open /boot/lua/loader.lua: no such file or directory
Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help.
OK ls /boot
/boot
OK
Edit 2021-06-04: The DVD1 image is defective. Required boot programs are missing.
The DISK1 image is too big; it will not fit on a 704 MB CD blank. USB does not work for me.
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