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Date:      Wed, 24 Jan 2001 18:54:38 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Dave Hayes <dave@jetcafe.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Running FreeBSD off of CDROM
Message-ID:  <20010124185438.K45221@citusc17.usc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200101250053.QAA29043@hokkshideh.jetcafe.org>; from dave@jetcafe.org on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 04:53:39PM -0800
References:  <200101250053.QAA29043@hokkshideh.jetcafe.org>

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On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 04:53:39PM -0800, Dave Hayes wrote:
> I was asked recently if it was possible to run a FreeBSD server
> entirely off of CDROM. Now I know that things like /var need to be
> writable, and that the initial question as worded was rather naive.
> However, modulo writable filesystems which can be mounted separately,
> has anyone ever done something like this?

Yes. In fact I think the BSDi CD sets even come with a bootable live
filesystem CD which is exactly this (not sure if it takes care of
writability issues). If not the release CD sets, then the
Toolkit..I've seen it somewhere.

Kris

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