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On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, Wei Wang wrote:

>      I have installed the BSD 2.2.2 on my computer. Yet I find that
> after the completion of the installment, the second disk of BSD 2.2.2
> hasn't been required to insert into CD drive. So what's the content and
> function of the second drive? 

The second disk is a "Live Filesystem" CD, which is a snapshot of a disk
as if FreeBSD had just been installed to it.  This is handy for grabbing
particular system files without having to manually extract the files from
the distribution archives.

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