Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 09:00:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM as system disk Message-ID: <199810071600.JAA27226@whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.981007192028.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> from Daniel O'Connor at "Oct 7, 98 07:20:28 pm"
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Daniel O'Connor writes: | | Actually, I think someone has already at least done the basics of it, | (ie having a CD boot into FreeBSD and mount itself as root) if you're | interested I'll see if I can find some more info out about it. Maybe you where thinking of me. For manufacturing purposes we made a bootable CDROM. It mounts the CD as the root file system. I modified /etc/rc to fdisk/disklabel/newfs the IDE disk drive and then copy /var on to the IDE disk drive. Then mount it as /var and boot to multi-user. We actually copy some more stuff to to IDE drive for loading system since CD-ROM are not a good random access media. Even the fast ones are slow as shown by doing a login until it gets cached in ram. The floppy is useful to configure the image (just set the BIOS to boot the CD). Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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