From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 30 12:18:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2CE437B401; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:18:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91A1A43E4A; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:18:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0422.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.193.167] helo=mindspring.com) by avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 186zI2-0007OH-00; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:18:10 -0800 Message-ID: <3DC03E35.1AF131B6@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:16:53 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Juan Francisco Rodriguez Hervella Subject: Re: What's this for ? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Baldwin wrote: > > It's an installed FreeBSD that is on a CDROM. It depends on your > > BIOS being able to boot the FS as if it were a hard disk image. > > Huh? It doesn't do that. If it is bootable, then it boots into > sysinstall just like CD #1. What it is useful for is to be used > as a fixit CD. We don't boot it as a hard drive though. You're right... I confused the "Live FS" with the "Live CD", which is a seperate image distribution. Sorry for the bum information. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message