FreeBSD 5.3 Disc 2.. (what's on it)

halo14 · 11-09-2004, 04:59 PM

I recently installed FreeBSD 5.3 and upon installation selected "All" when prompted for what to install, I also selected the Ports tree..

And to my suprise.. It never asked for disc 2... So my question is.. what's on it? I look on it but i can't really make out what I would use the second disc for... anyone know?

frob23 · 11-09-2004, 05:01 PM

The second disk is a live CD. Basically, if you would ever need a running system but can't boot from the hard drive... that will work in a pinch.

I've never really used it..

rehab junkie · 11-09-2004, 05:13 PM

LiveFS is good for recovering a borked-out system. Boot from disc 1, and in sysinstall select Fixit and select to run from the CD. You put CD 2 in and it brings up a shell and mounts the filesystem on your disk. I've used it a couple of times, rescuing systems from buildworlds/kernel builds that bugged out.

halo14 · 11-09-2004, 06:05 PM

That's cool.. maybe I'll have to try it than.. can you use it as a live cd for any system? i.e. - boot up a WinXP box with disc 2??