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Date:      Tue, 3 Apr 2001 03:00:27 -0500
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        =?iso-8859-1?q?Paul=20Jansen?= <vlaero@yahoo.com.au>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: running from CD?
Message-ID:  <15049.33563.728186.964683@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <4916749@toto.iv>

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Paul Jansen <vlaero@yahoo.com.au> types:
> I know that there are some Linux distos that allow you
> to do this - anyway enough of that :)
> 
> Is it possible to run freebsd without a hard drive
> instead accessing the required files off CDROM?  I can
> already boot machines diskless but there will be know
> other machine on the network to be able to provide
> files.  I've got PicoBSD up and running but it's lack
> of support for various cards is a problem for me.  I
> also wouldn;t mind being able to run apache and samba
> from a CD.  

It's clearly possible - the second CD of the standard distribution
does this. I don't know that anyone has documented how to do it,
though.

Possibly it just takes making sure the kernel you want to run is
compiled with the CD9660 and CD9660_ROOT options.

	<mike
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