From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 24 21: 9:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0803A37B69B for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 21:09:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0P59D964664; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 22:09:13 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200101250509.f0P59D964664@harmony.village.org> To: chris@calldei.com Subject: Re: Running FreeBSD off of CDROM Cc: Dave Hayes , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 24 Jan 2001 20:06:18 CST." <20010124200618.C776@holly.calldei.com> References: <20010124200618.C776@holly.calldei.com> <200101250053.QAA29043@hokkshideh.jetcafe.org> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 22:09:13 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20010124200618.C776@holly.calldei.com> Chris Costello writes: : What you'd need is a writable medium, preferable a hard disk, : with whatever file system you want to use on it, and a CD with a : stripped-down FreeBSD installation, complete with a kernel that : matches your hardware. You don't need a writable medium to run FreeBSD. Well, I take that back, you do need a writable partition, but that can be mfs. We run off CF which is mounted read only with the usual rc.diskless tricks for creating /var and /dev. Similar techniques could be used for booting off of cdrom. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message