From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 22 12:39:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1F4714DB8 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 12:39:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA47216; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 12:39:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 12:39:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Jamie Norwood Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Making a system on CD In-Reply-To: <19990622102537.A13601@ethereal.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Jamie Norwood wrote: > > Here is what I would like to do. I would like to put a filesystem of all the > unchanging binaries and such on a CD-R disk, that I could boot from rather > than the small hard drive the machine has. Is there a guide for doing this > anywhere? I would appreciate the help in getting this working! Booting CDs is non-trivial since you have to build a boot floppy image to serve to the BIOS for El Torrito booting. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message