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From: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: W.C. Live cdrom: Howto?
Date: 14 Mar 1996 17:26:18 -0800
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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In article <4h1vlo$ahh@spectator.cris.com> Rslater@cris.com (Rick Slater) writes:
   I just purchased the Walnut Creek pair of cdroms which contain
   version 2.1 of FreeBSD.  One of them is a live filesystem, but
   there seems to be no documentation on how to actually use that
   particular cd.  I've been successful in getting the installation

It's just for convenience - you don't need it for the installation.

   give a brief summary of what to do?  I've tried the dos utility
   "fbsdboot.exe", and it *almost* works.  The boot hangs at the
   point where the cdrom is about to be mounted as root (-C option).

Not surprised - it's not what fbsdboot is expecting.  It only works
with the first CD, not the live one.
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					Jordan