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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: create a boot cdrom dos program
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On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Francis Yeung wrote:

> 	I am looking for information to create a DOS program
> which will boot the FreeBSD from the 2nd CD (FreeBSD distribution).

If your CDROM supports booting directly (like many SCSI discs), you can
just pop your disc in there and start on up.  Otherwise, you can run the
'fbsdboot' program to start the kernel on the CDROM.

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