From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 30 11:58:43 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 8922737B401 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 11:58:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail15.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E66043E3B for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 11:58:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 6913 invoked from network); 30 Oct 2002 19:58:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail15.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 30 Oct 2002 19:58:46 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9UJwcn5026626; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 14:58:39 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3DC03693.C08EC805@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 14:58:38 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Terry Lambert Subject: Re: What's this for ? Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Juan Francisco Rodriguez Hervella 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 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 <>< 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