Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:26:43 -0800 From: "Ahmad Arafat Abdullah" <trunasuci@mail.com> To: "Mike Jeays" <mj001@rogers.com>, "Jerry McAllister" <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: Stanley Wright <linuxrule@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD from floppy or CD Message-ID: <20060920012643.BF6451158CC@ws1-7.us4.outblaze.com>
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> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Jeays" <mj001@rogers.com> > To: "Jerry McAllister" <jerrymc@msu.edu> > Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD from floppy or CD > Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:49:27 -0400 >=20 >=20 > 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=20 > > CD. I dont want > the other users to know the OS is on the=20 > > computer. > > > > Wow, stealth FreeBSD. > > I haven't done it, but I think you can make a live CD and boot=20 > > and run from that. But what about disk space to use - you will=20 > > want to leave some stuff there somewhere to work on. Just=20 > > getting it booted is not very exciting or fulfulling. Of=20 > > course, if the other system on the machine is MS, and you squeeze=20 > > it down to make room for some FreeBSD work space, it won't show=20 > > up in MS. So, maybe no-one will notice the space shrinkage.=20=20=20 > > You could go ahead and make it FreeBSD bootable too, but then=20 > > they would see the FreeBSD boot select menu. You could put=20 > > 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=20 > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd= .org" >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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 --=20 ___________________________________________________ Play 100s of games for FREE! http://games.mail.com
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