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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!portc01.blue.aol.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: how can I boot from "live CDROM"? Date: 2 Jan 1997 13:12:06 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <5agc76$6fa@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <32BECE33.15FB@math.tau.ac.il> <59ofu8$brm@uriah.heep.sax.de> <5a9e21$huj@uriah.heep.sax.de> <32C8BCC0.4ECD@mcil.comm.mot.com> <5ade07$b9i@topeka.cjnetworks.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33489 tdsmith@topeka.cjnetworks.com wrote: > Now I'm curious. My BIOS has an option to boot from CD and recognizes my > CD-ROM drive natively (nothing like not needing drivers in DOS!), so I > wonder what would happen if I tried to use that second CD that came with > 2.1.0? That's where this entire thread started, so you perhaps best re-read it completely. The short answer is: no, it's not possible (yet). -- 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. ;-)