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List:       freebsd-chat
Subject:    Re: System to boot off CD-ROM, and into MFS
From:       Nik Clayton <nik () freebsd ! org>
Date:       2002-02-24 6:12:20
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On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 09:45:15PM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote:
> I'm looking for a starting point for this project.  Any articles on
> creating a bootable FreeBSD cd-roms?  I guess that there has to be
> some mechanism to transfer the needed files into the MFS system, once
> the kernel has loaded, but before it mounted the root file system
> (because the root file system is going to be on MFS).  The
> installation system must be doing something like that.  Is that
> documented somewhere?

Take a look at

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=2158+0+archive/2002/freebsd-advocacy/20020120.freebsd-advocacy


which is information about a "FreeBSD Live CD" project which sounds like
it could support exactly the sort of functionality you suggest.

N
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