Booting FreeBSD from floppy or CD
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 1ยข/min. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Booting FreeBSD from floppy or CD
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 http://livecd.sourceforge.net -- grtjs, albi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Booting FreeBSD from floppy or CD
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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Booting FreeBSD from floppy or CD
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 will be to your taste. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Booting FreeBSD from floppy or CD
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 run from that. But what about disk space to use - you will want to leave some stuff there somewhere to work on. Just getting it booted is not very exciting or fulfulling. Of course, if the other system on the machine is MS, and you squeeze it down to make room for some FreeBSD work space, it won't show up in MS. So, maybe no-one will notice the space shrinkage. You could go ahead and make it FreeBSD bootable too, but then they would see the FreeBSD boot select menu. You could put everything there, but replace the MBR with the MS one and then use the CD to start the boot and then select the FreeBSD slice from its menu and then just run from the disk. Then the CD is only needed for its MBR. I think that would work. Anyway, check the FreeBSD handbook on making a live CD and maybe someone else will also dip in their oar. So, what's so scarey about someone else knowing FreeBSD is on the machine? jerry Thanks Stan - freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Booting FreeBSD from floppy or CD
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. I haven't done it, but I think you can make a live CD and boot and run from that. But what about disk space to use - you will want to leave some stuff there somewhere to work on. Just getting it booted is not very exciting or fulfulling. Of course, if the other system on the machine is MS, and you squeeze it down to make room for some FreeBSD work space, it won't show up in MS. So, maybe no-one will notice the space shrinkage. You could go ahead and make it FreeBSD bootable too, but then they would see the FreeBSD boot select menu. You could put everything there, but replace the MBR with the MS one and then use the CD to start the boot and then select the FreeBSD slice from its menu and then just run from the disk. Then the CD is only needed for its MBR. I think that would work. Anyway, check the FreeBSD handbook on making a live CD and maybe someone else will also dip in their oar. So, what's so scarey about someone else knowing FreeBSD is on the machine? jerry Thanks Stan - freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] A live CD such as Freesbie and a USB memory stick for personal storage should give you all you need. You can format the USB memory with the FreeBSD UFS filesystem, or leave is as a DOS FAT for compatibility with other operating systems. You won't need to change a single byte on the hard disk, and no one will know once you go away. If you are thwarting company or school policy, watch out! It might be much cheaper in the long run to buy another machine of your own. A used computer can be had for very little, and an older one will run FreeBSD just fine. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Booting FreeBSD from floppy or CD
- 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 -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 run from that. But what about disk space to use - you will want to leave some stuff there somewhere to work on. Just getting it booted is not very exciting or fulfulling. Of course, if the other system on the machine is MS, and you squeeze it down to make room for some FreeBSD work space, it won't show up in MS. So, maybe no-one will notice the space shrinkage. You could go ahead and make it FreeBSD bootable too, but then they would see the FreeBSD boot select menu. You could put everything there, but replace the MBR with the MS one and then use the CD to start the boot and then select the FreeBSD slice from its menu and then just run from the disk. Then the CD is only needed for its MBR. I think that would work. Anyway, check the FreeBSD handbook on making a live CD and maybe someone else will also dip in their oar. So, what's so scarey about someone else knowing FreeBSD is on the machine? jerry Thanks Stan - freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] A live CD such as Freesbie and a USB memory stick for personal storage should give you all you need. You can format the USB memory with the FreeBSD UFS filesystem, or leave is as a DOS FAT for compatibility with other operating systems. You won't need to change a single byte on the hard disk, and no one will know once you go away. If you are thwarting company or school policy, watch out! It might be much cheaper in the long run to buy another machine of your own. A used computer can be had for very little, and an older one will run FreeBSD just fine. yerps.. I've tried Freesbie and also NetBSD live cd.. it rocks!.. or maybe u can try normal installation without bootloader writing to /mbr.. maybe u can use GRUB on floppy or any other bootloader like SBM (SmartBootmanager) on floppy and point it to your FreeBSD slice.. gud luck! p/s: pls correct me if I'm wrong TQ -- ___ Play 100s of games for FREE! http://games.mail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
