Booting an iso image from HD for pre-burn testing on FreeBSD

[Eric F Crist]

On Mar 2, 2005, at 7:19 PM, "c4632 at comcast.net"@comcast.net wrote:

> Has anyone ever seen, heard of, done it? I'm working on a 
> FreeSBIE-built image (w/ 5.3-Stable) and would like to pre-burn boot 
> the final iso image.
>
> I can mount and traverse the image fine but want to make sure I've 
> crossed all the t's with an actual boot before I start manufacturing 
> shiny coasters...got enough of those from AOL.
>
>
>
> MTIA
> --Chris

A couple ways you can do this:

1) Use CDRW's.  You can always re-burn them.  ;)
2) On Mac OS X with Virtual PC, you can use an image to boot from.

Just a thought.

HTH
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