Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 23:23:41 -0600 From: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: Dave Hayes <dave@jetcafe.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Running FreeBSD off of CDROM Message-ID: <20010124232341.D776@holly.calldei.com> In-Reply-To: <200101250509.f0P59D964664@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 10:09:13PM -0700 References: <20010124200618.C776@holly.calldei.com> <200101250053.QAA29043@hokkshideh.jetcafe.org> <20010124200618.C776@holly.calldei.com> <200101250509.f0P59D964664@harmony.village.org>
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On Wednesday, January 24, 2001, Warner Losh wrote: > 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. I'm assuming that there's some data he wants to permenantly store on a disk. But yes, just like the live FS CDROM, MFS can easily be used. -- +-------------------+------------------------------------------+ | Chris Costello | If the code and the comments disagree, | | chris@calldei.com | then both are probably wrong. - Schryer | +-------------------+------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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