> Tell me if I am wrong but from the floppy, the files kern.flp &
> mfsroot.flp are compressed and then uncompressed into memory.
>
> If so, that means that the FreeBSD box is running this programs from the
> RAM and not from the floppy, right ?
Correct. They're running with the root device set to a memory
filesystem (which has been initialized with the contents of
mfsroot.flp).
> If so, is it possible to do the same but from a hard disk instead of the
> floppy ?
That's generally how most FreeBSD systems boot, yes. :-)
- Jordan
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