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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Live File System
Date: 20 Jul 1996 14:06:22 GMT
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theblufs@orbonline.net wrote:

> I just purchased FreeBSD 2.1 on CD. It comes with two CD's. One CD
> is the 'live file system' CD. I am presently running two harddrives
> on IDE. How do I boot to the CD to boot the FreeBSD os.????

You can't (yet).  The ``live filesystem'' is merely a reference.
E.g., you could create a symlink mirror from it for the ports, or you
could apply some minor Makefile tweaking (or symlink hacking), and use
its kernel source tree to compile a new kernel from without putting
the 10...15 MB kernel source on your disk.  (You still need the space
for the .o files, of course.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)