On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 07:55:13PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Can I boot from the FreeBSD boot CD and avoid mounting anything on any > of the hard drives at all? (That's not a problem in this case, since the > root is on a different drive, but if I ever had to replace the drive > containing the root I'm just wondering how to go about it.)
Use Disk2 - the live filesystem disk - for that purpose. If you boot
from it, it puts you into sysinstall just like disk1, but you can
select 'Fixit mode' from the main menu and get a shell prompt while
running entirely of the CD.
Cheers,
Matthew
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