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From: Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be>
To: Cristobal Miguelo <cristobalmiguelo2@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Booting to CD and the handing off to HD
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On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 11:49:54PM -0700, Cristobal Miguelo wrote:
> Dear Geert,
> 
> Thanks for the reply!  I wasn't aware of that program and i'll
> certainly look into it.  Do you think I could use mkisofs and do the
> whole El Torito cd boot thing?
> 
> Thx
> -Cristobal

Exactly.  Take a look at http://www.freesbie.org.  

There also are firewall-systems that fit on a single floppy, e.g.
PicoBSD: http://people.freebsd.org/~picobsd/picobsd.html, which works
very nice as well.  

And of course, Linux has thousands of floppy/cd-based distro's.  

GH

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:wq