Booting FreeBSD from floppy or CD

2006-09-19 Thread Stanley Wright
Hi All, Is it possible to boot FreeBSD from a floppy disk or a CD. I dont want the other users to know the OS is on the computer. Thanks Stan - Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at

Re: Booting FreeBSD from floppy or CD

2006-09-19 Thread albi
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 01:52:07 -0700 (PDT) Stanley Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to boot FreeBSD from a floppy disk or a CD. I dont want the other users to know the OS is on the computer. there are a few FreeBSD live-cds : http://www.freesbie.org

Re: Booting FreeBSD from floppy or CD

2006-09-19 Thread RW
On Tuesday 19 September 2006 09:52, Stanley Wright wrote: Hi All, Is it possible to boot FreeBSD from a floppy disk or a CD. I dont want the other users to know the OS is on the computer. I would suggest running the Gag bootmanager from a floppy.

Re: Booting FreeBSD from floppy or CD

2006-09-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Stanley Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it possible to boot FreeBSD from a floppy disk or a CD. Sure. You just configure the loader(8) to find its kernel and root filesystem on the appropriate disk. If that's too tricky for you, there are lots of other boot loaders. Surely one of them

Re: Booting FreeBSD from floppy or CD

2006-09-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 01:52:07AM -0700, Stanley Wright wrote: Hi All, Is it possible to boot FreeBSD from a floppy disk or a CD. I dont want the other users to know the OS is on the computer. Wow, stealth FreeBSD. I haven't done it, but I think you can make a live CD and boot and

Re: Booting FreeBSD from floppy or CD

2006-09-19 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 10:49 -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 01:52:07AM -0700, Stanley Wright wrote: Hi All, Is it possible to boot FreeBSD from a floppy disk or a CD. I dont want the other users to know the OS is on the computer. Wow, stealth FreeBSD.

Re: Booting FreeBSD from floppy or CD

2006-09-19 Thread Ahmad Arafat Abdullah
- Original Message - From: Mike Jeays [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD from floppy or CD Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:49:27 -0400 On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 10:49 -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 01:52:07AM