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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
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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?