From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 20 01:21:47 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF8FF16A416 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 01:21:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from trunasuci@mail.com) Received: from webmail-outgoing.us4.outblaze.com (webmail-outgoing.us4.outblaze.com [205.158.62.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 900C943D6D for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 01:21:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from trunasuci@mail.com) Received: from unknown (unknown [192.168.9.180]) by webmail-outgoing.us4.outblaze.com (Postfix) with QMQP id 86D0C18007CE for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 01:28:22 +0000 (GMT) X-OB-Received: from unknown (205.158.62.62) by wfilter.us4.outblaze.com; 20 Sep 2006 01:26:41 -0000 Received: by ws1-7.us4.outblaze.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id BF6451158CC; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 01:26:43 +0000 (GMT) Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "Ahmad Arafat Abdullah" To: "Mike Jeays" , "Jerry McAllister" Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:26:43 -0800 Received: from [60.49.202.201] by ws1-7.us4.outblaze.com with http for trunasuci@mail.com; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:26:43 -0800 X-Originating-Ip: 60.49.202.201 X-Originating-Server: ws1-7.us4.outblaze.com Message-Id: <20060920012643.BF6451158CC@ws1-7.us4.outblaze.com> Cc: Stanley Wright , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD from floppy or CD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 01:21:47 -0000 > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Jeays" > To: "Jerry McAllister" > Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD from floppy or CD > Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:49:27 -0400 >=20 >=20 > On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 10:49 -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > 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=20 > > CD. I dont want > the other users to know the OS is on the=20 > > computer. > > > > Wow, stealth FreeBSD. > > I haven't done it, but I think you can make a live CD and boot=20 > > and run from that. But what about disk space to use - you will=20 > > want to leave some stuff there somewhere to work on. Just=20 > > getting it booted is not very exciting or fulfulling. Of=20 > > course, if the other system on the machine is MS, and you squeeze=20 > > it down to make room for some FreeBSD work space, it won't show=20 > > up in MS. So, maybe no-one will notice the space shrinkage.=20=20=20 > > You could go ahead and make it FreeBSD bootable too, but then=20 > > they would see the FreeBSD boot select menu. You could put=20 > > 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=20 > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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" >=20 > A live CD such as Freesbie and a USB memory stick for personal storage > should give you all you need. You can format the USB memory with the > FreeBSD UFS filesystem, or leave is as a DOS FAT for compatibility with > other operating systems. You won't need to change a single byte on the > hard disk, and no one will know once you go away. >=20 > If you are thwarting company or school policy, watch out! It might be > much cheaper in the long run to buy another machine of your own. A used > computer can be had for very little, and an older one will run FreeBSD > just fine. yerps.. I've tried Freesbie and also NetBSD live cd.. it rocks!.. or maybe u can try normal installation without bootloader writing to /mbr..= maybe u can use GRUB on floppy or any other bootloader like SBM (SmartBootmanager= ) on floppy and point it to your FreeBSD slice.. gud luck! p/s: pls correct me if I'm wrong TQ --=20 ___________________________________________________ Play 100s of games for FREE! http://games.mail.com