Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 18:43:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Charlie Sorsby <crs@hgo.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: WC 2.2.5 cdrom set Message-ID: <199804182243.SAA00327@quail.hgo.net>
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Should the second CD in the four-CD set (purportedly the live file system) be bootable? Having got my second disk, I installed 2.2.5 on it (leaving 2.1.5 on the first disk with W95). I had the second disk of the set in the drive a while ago for some reason and rebooted the system and it booted the CDROM. I haven't tested disks 3 and 4 yet. I should have thought that only the first disk, the one actually used for installation, would be bootable. Having the live file system bootable seems to me to make it quite a bit less useful since one can't simply leave it in the drive across boots. Granted it isn't necessary to reboot FreeBSD often but sometimes it is necessary for other reasons and sometimes--especially during the electrical storm season--a power failure will reboot the system, like it or not. Having it boot to the installation program is a bit dangerous, isn't it? Thanks. Charlie Sorsby crs@hgo.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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