Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 08:14:14 -0700 (PDT) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org To: yura@binary.net Cc: Brian Behlendorf <brian@hyperreal.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM as system disk Message-ID: <ML-3.3.907773254.54.patl@asimov> In-Reply-To: <19981007045713.A5273@binary.net>
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> Another option can be LSBSD -- on a 120M LS120 floppy disk. Those run less > then $90 lately, the disk costs around $10 or so, but it's writeable and > so on... > > That would eliminate all read-only problems, and FreeBSD can run > beautifully on 120M. > > Copying those disks is also not a problem, obviously. > > I am not sure about support of those drives, though, since i've never had > one myself. My experience is that none of the removable media systems has the long term duty cycle reliability necessary for the system disks. I haven't tried the LS120 yet; but I see nothing in the technology that would cause me to expect them to be better suited for this purpose than a Jaz, Zip, Syquest, etc. drive. Note that I would be -very- happy to be proven wrong. I keep one machine as a multi-OS system so that I have occasional access to environments that I don't use enough to dedicate a machine to. To avoid even the slightest possibility of any system install trashing any of the others, I use removable system disks instead of multi-boot systems. Since none of the removable media drives has proven to be sufficiently reliable, I've had to fall back to a caddy system. -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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