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Date:      Wed, 30 Oct 2002 11:44:19 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Juan Francisco Rodriguez Hervella <jrh@it.uc3m.es>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What's this for ?
Message-ID:  <3DC03693.C08EC805@mindspring.com>
References:  <3DBFEE19.F6065040@it.uc3m.es>

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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

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