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From: Frank Steinborn <steinex@nognu.de>
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Subject: Re: bootonly iso for what
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Romain Jalbert wrote:
> I am new on FreeBSD, I just want to know what is the purpose of the bootonly
> iso file.. (we may download iso cd1 and cd2 for the setup of 6.1, but what
> is the use for  6.1-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso
> <ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.1/6.1-RELEASE-
> i386-bootonly.iso>  cd ?)

It will boot you into the FreeBSD installer for an installation over
network.

Frank