Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 14:58:38 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Juan Francisco Rodriguez Hervella <jrh@it.uc3m.es> Subject: Re: What's this for ? Message-ID: <XFMail.20021030145838.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <3DC03693.C08EC805@mindspring.com>
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On 30-Oct-2002 Terry Lambert wrote: > 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. Huh? It doesn't do that. If it is bootable, then it boots into sysinstall just like CD #1. What it is useful for is to be used as a fixit CD. We don't boot it as a hard drive though. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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