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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!svc.portal.com!news1.best.com!nntp1.best.com!seventek From: seventek@nntp.best.com (Caffiene Dependent) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: boot 2.1 from cdrom Date: 7 Apr 1996 21:46:01 GMT Organization: Best Internet Communications Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4k9d2p$mmg@nntp1.best.com> References: <4jn648$20g@clarknet.clark.net> <4k1jre$krb@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: shellx.best.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : zoonie@clark.net (zoonie) writes: : > i just recently purchased the freebsd 2.1 cdrom set and was wondering : > if i could somehow boot off of the live file system cdrom that was : > included. has anybody tried this? thanks... : No, it's rather intended to be a reference. In particular, you can : find the entire source tree unpacked there. : -- : cheers, J"org Why not? You should be able to do this on any SCSI card with BIOS (booting capability.. the type that one can attach a SCSI HD as the primary disk to). I see no reason that this should not work. ...but why would you want to do this?