From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 30 11:45:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CE4A37B401 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 11:45:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D48FE43E7B for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 11:45:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0422.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.193.167] helo=mindspring.com) by swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 186ymU-0003WF-00; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 11:45:35 -0800 Message-ID: <3DC03693.C08EC805@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 11:44:19 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Juan Francisco Rodriguez Hervella Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's this for ? References: <3DBFEE19.F6065040@it.uc3m.es> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Juan Francisco Rodriguez Hervella wrote: > I've seen this looking for ISO images > of FreeBSD-5.0-DP1: > > 5.0-DP1-disc2.iso - 5.0 Developer Preview #1 - live filesystem. > > is it possible to work with this filesystem ? > I mean, what can be done ? is it auto-bootable or > I need to boot from the other one ? It's an installed FreeBSD that is on a CDROM. It depends on your BIOS being able to boot the FS as if it were a hard disk image. You can pretty much do anything with it that you would do with any other FreeBSD that you had installed and then mounted as read-only. Running of a CDROM long terms is not such a good idea. To be specific, CDROM drives are not built for continuous duty cycles, and will cook themselves fairly quickly if asked to operate this way (i.e. a couple weeks to a month). So it's mostly for "test drive", "recovery", and "security comparisons". -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message