Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 02:20:33 -0400 From: "Allen Smith" <easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting from NT ? Message-ID: <9809280220.ZM6404@beatrice.rutgers.edu> In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> "Re: Booting from NT ?" (Sep 26, 6:43pm) References: <199809262242.PAA24523@usr04.primenet.com>
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On Sep 26, 6:43pm, Terry Lambert (possibly) wrote: > The minimal modification is an MFS /var, mounted early, and a symlink > from /tmp -> /var/tmp, yes. > > Having a DEVFS (with SLICE) also helps... one less thing to deal > with not being R/O. Question... what does happen if one has a R/O root filesystem, including /dev, without DEVFS? I'm constructing a firewall computer with a (switchable - a nice facility of some Seagate drives) hard drive for root, a second writeable drive for /var and swap, and a /tmp MFS. What problems am I likely to run into with /dev? I'd really prefer not to have it as a symlink to /var/dev or some such... -Allen -- Allen Smith easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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