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Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD from floppy or CD
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Stanley Wright <linuxrule@yahoo.com> 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.