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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 13:11:04 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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Shimon Pozin <shimonp@mcil.comm.mot.com> wrote:

> > Followup to this: in FreeBSD 2.2, you will be able to use the 2nd CD
> > as a fixit medium.

> Thanks, Joerg, but the question is still open: whether it depends on
> BIOS? If BIOS does not recognize CDROM as a bootable device if I can
> boot from it? I am a bit confused. What will do your "some code"?

Sorry, i should probably have changed the Subject line.  I didn't mean
you could boot off it, but you can boot the regular (installation)
floppy, and use the CD as the fixit medium.  Until now, you could only
use a fixit floppy, now you've got a choice between the floppy, or the
2nd CD.

So of course, it doesn't depend on the BIOS, since after the
installation floppy has been booted, you're already running a copy of
FreeBSD.

-- 
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. ;-)