From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 24 7:10:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from infinity.aesredfish.net (ns1.aesredfish.net [65.168.0.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D974B37B404 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 07:10:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from potentialtech.com (mhope-dhcp-65-168-1-181.dashfast.com [65.168.1.181]) by infinity.aesredfish.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g5OE9kr25415; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 10:09:46 -0400 Message-ID: <3D1729A2.4070601@potentialtech.com> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 10:16:02 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020502 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: C Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System running from CD References: <20020623230602.9864.CACEROLA@hotpop.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG C wrote: > Hi all. > > Has any of you run your system from a CD? I read somewhere that it is > possible, and that, for security reasons, it is very good, as nothing > can be modified in a CD. And in the case of a root compromise, you just > need to reboot. > > Well, of course, there are some things that need to be modified, which > you can run from a filesystem in RAM ... or something like that. > > And in the case of the compromise you'll need to fix it, of course. > > Have you tried this? Comments welcome. > Thanks. Bye all. Search the list archives for LiveCD. Those scripts will allow you to create a bootable CD like you want. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message