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From: Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu>
To: Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com>
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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: One-floppy FreBSD + rich networking 
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On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Snob Art Genre wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Amancio Hasty wrote:
> 
> > Since we are now blessed with fast ide cdroms , it would be really
> > cool to have a CDROM version of picoBSD . The space is nice however,
> > I am thinking that we can boot a lot faster from a CD ...
> 
> Not to mention the rather attractive security and reliability implications
> of running off of a read-only medium.
> 
> 
>  Ben
> 

Can FreeBSD run from read-only media?  Aren't there some files in /etc
that need to be writable at run-time?

Tom