Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:49:45 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Stanley Wright <linuxrule@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD from floppy or CD Message-ID: <20060919144945.GA17997@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060919085207.3646.qmail@web32413.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060919085207.3646.qmail@web32413.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 01:52:07AM -0700, Stanley Wright wrote: > Hi All, > > Is it possible to boot FreeBSD from a floppy disk or a CD. I dont want > the other users to know the OS is on the computer. Wow, stealth FreeBSD. I haven't done it, but I think you can make a live CD and boot and run from that. But what about disk space to use - you will want to leave some stuff there somewhere to work on. Just getting it booted is not very exciting or fulfulling. Of course, if the other system on the machine is MS, and you squeeze it down to make room for some FreeBSD work space, it won't show up in MS. So, maybe no-one will notice the space shrinkage. You could go ahead and make it FreeBSD bootable too, but then they would see the FreeBSD boot select menu. You could put everything there, but replace the MBR with the MS one and then use the CD to start the boot and then select the FreeBSD slice from its menu and then just run from the disk. Then the CD is only needed for its MBR. I think that would work. Anyway, check the FreeBSD handbook on making a live CD and maybe someone else will also dip in their oar. So, what's so scarey about someone else knowing FreeBSD is on the machine? ////jerry > Thanks > Stan > --------------------------------- > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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