From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 7 23:04:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA27518 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 23:04:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gjp.erols.com (alex-va-n008c079.moon.jic.com [206.156.18.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA27435; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 23:04:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gjp@gjp.erols.com) Received: from gjp.erols.com (gjp@localhost.erols.com [127.0.0.1]) by gjp.erols.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA24191; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 01:48:05 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gjp@gjp.erols.com) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: shmit@kublai.com cc: Terry Lambert , Satoshi Asami , karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se, current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: CDROM as system disk In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 08 Oct 1998 00:29:29 EDT." <19981008002929.H529@kublai.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 01:48:04 -0400 Message-ID: <24187.907825684@gjp.erols.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brian Cully wrote in message ID <19981008002929.H529@kublai.com>: > 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. When was the last time you put a FreeBSD CDROM into a drive with a controller which supported the PC bootable-CD extensions Brian? :) Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message