Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 02:14:14 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: vadik-hackers@freebsd.vygo.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd running on a cdrom Message-ID: <3E180576.B10C26CD@mindspring.com> References: <20030102220350.5971.qmail@web41013.mail.yahoo.com> <20030105001014.GA76756@cs.huji.ac.il> <20030105.001255.53237870.imp@bsdimp.com>
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"M. Warner Losh" wrote: > : CD-ROM is not what I would call a reliable media. May I suggest > : booting from the network (PXE) or booting from a hard disk and > : mounting the partitions read-only? [ ... ] > > I'd suspect that cdrom drives will break more often than hard disks in > harsh environments. CDROMs are simply not built for a continuous duty cycle, period, I think. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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