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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Where FAQ on CD rom Live file system?
Date: 7 Aug 1995 12:13:42 +0200
Organization: Private U**x site, Dresden.
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<freyes@i-2000.com> wrote:
>I just got FreeBSD and I am wondering if there is a FAQ on how to use the
>Live File System CDROM.
>
>I do plan to get a HD for FreeBSD next month, but at the mean time I would
>like to run all I can from the CDROM.
Do you think about a totally diskless setup? Difficult, you'd need a
new installation floppy.
If you've got a minimal system on the hard disk however, and only want
to get everything else off the CD, you'll simply have to extend your
PATH variable:
export PATH="${PATH}:/cdrom/bin:/cdrom/usr/bin:/cdrom/usr/local/bin"
(for Bourne-compatible shells, typically in your ${HOME}/.profile
or /etc/profile)
set path = ($path /cdrom/bin /cdrom/usr/bin /cdrom/usr/local/bin)
(for csh-compatible shells, typically in your ~/.login or /etc/csh.login)
You might have to perform additional hacks if you want to use shared
libraries that are only on the CD (extending LD_CONFIG_PATH and
running ldconfig on it), and/or use X11 programs.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)