Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 17:31:31 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: One-floppy FreBSD + rich networking Message-ID: <199801220131.RAA17554@crab.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <19980121022935.45924@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> from John-Mark Gurney at "Jan 21, 98 02:29:35 am"
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John-Mark Gurney writes: | Amancio Hasty scribbled this message on Jan 21: | > 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 so much the speed booting, but think of what you could put on | 650megs of space? you could do a nice Xserver with that... where you | grab the xf86 config file off of some anon ftp server or something... | you would have complete local fonts... Well speaking of which we are booting FreeBSD of a cdrom with the cd mounted as the root file-system. We use this to build manufacturing servers so I don't have to worry about loading and installing software on our servers (they are at a different location). This stuff works a lot better in 3.0 as of Dec. 8th. 2.2.5 is broken. We do use a hard-disk for var and tmp but we initialize and copy var off the CD since the unionfs wasn't work in 2.2. It's kind of cool watching FreeBSD boot off a CD-ROM and when the CD has spun down it takes a while to login! Doug A.
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