From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 1 21:06:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA17235 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 21:06:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts14-line15.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.181]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA17226 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 21:06:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA00250; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 21:06:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 21:06:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Elton Chiu cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FreeBSD 2.1 Live File System CD In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960730211311.002b35dc@direct.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 30 Jul 1996, Elton Chiu wrote: > I finish reading FreeBSD handbook and all readme files and release notes on > the CD-ROM and still can't find instruction on how to us the Live File > System on CD. Further pointers to related information will be appreciated. The Live Filesystem CD can be used for a great many things. Since it's just like a regular BSD volume, you can mount it and access it like any disk. One thing you can do with it is using the 'lndir' utility, you can make a symlink tree of parts of the source tree. Then the files don't take (much) space on your hard disk; instead you pop in your CD and look at them that way. Also, if you accidentally hose some file, you can just copy it off the CD without having to extract the distribution files. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major