Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 14:33:33 -0400 (EDT) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" <atf3r@cs.virginia.edu> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Subject: Re: Demo CDs (was: blessing) Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980429143116.21079A-100000@mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU> In-Reply-To: <19980429145242.02565@papillon.lemis.com>
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On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > OK, so what do we need? My thought is for two or three preinstalled > versions: > > 1. A CD-ROM-based version which will boot from CD-ROM, Microsoft or > floppy, create an MFS file system for things that really need to > write to "disk", and other than that run from CD-ROM. Create the > / file system on the mfs and symlinks to just about everything > except /tmp, /var/tmp and /home to the CD-ROM. With any luck, we > should be able to get away with 4 MB MFS. If the machine had a disk with a well supported DOS-ish fs on it, then you could configure a vnode on to a large file and mount that as the non-volitile filesytem. Perhaps the fbsdboot.exe program could be extended to support this. Adrian -- adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| If I were stranded on a desert island, and System Administrator --->>>| I could only have one OS for my computer, Neurosurgical Visualization Lab ->>| it would be FreeBSD. Think about it..... http://www.nvl.virginia.edu/ ->| http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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