Juan Francisco Rodriguez Hervella wrote: > I've seen this looking for ISO images > of FreeBSD-5.0-DP1: > > 5.0-DP1-disc2.iso - 5.0 Developer Preview #1 - live filesystem. > > is it possible to work with this filesystem ? > I mean, what can be done ? is it auto-bootable or > I need to boot from the other one ?
It's an installed FreeBSD that is on a CDROM. It depends on your BIOS being able to boot the FS as if it were a hard disk image. You can pretty much do anything with it that you would do with any other FreeBSD that you had installed and then mounted as read-only. Running of a CDROM long terms is not such a good idea. To be specific, CDROM drives are not built for continuous duty cycles, and will cook themselves fairly quickly if asked to operate this way (i.e. a couple weeks to a month). So it's mostly for "test drive", "recovery", and "security comparisons". -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
