From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 7 21:29:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA13750 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 21:29:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp3.erols.com (smtp3.erols.com [207.172.3.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA13742; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 21:29:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shmit@natasya.noc.erols.net) Received: from natasya.noc.erols.net (natasya.noc.erols.net [207.172.25.236]) by smtp3.erols.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA20198; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 00:29:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from shmit@localhost) by natasya.noc.erols.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id AAA09435; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 00:29:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19981008002929.H529@kublai.com> Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 00:29:29 -0400 From: Brian Cully To: Terry Lambert , Satoshi Asami Cc: karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM as system disk Reply-To: shmit@kublai.com References: <199810072345.QAA11625@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <199810080220.TAA01264@usr08.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199810080220.TAA01264@usr08.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 02:20:19AM +0000 X-Sender: If your mailer pays attention to this, it's broken. X-PGP-Info: finger shmit@kublai.com for my public key. Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 02:20:19AM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > BeOS for the PowerMac boots from CDROM. Yeah, but it just brings up an installer (at least that's what it does on my BeBox, I suppose the PowerMacs might be different). It should probably be fairly trivial to make the FreeBSD CDROM accomplish the same thing. The trick would be using the CDROM as your filesystem. -- Brian Cully ``And when one of our comrades was taken prisoner, blindfolded, hung upside-down, shot, and burned, we thought to ourselves, `These are the best experiences of our lives''' -Pathology (Joe Frank, Somewhere Out There) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message