Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 06:02:47 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu (Allen Smith) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, security@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting from NT ? Message-ID: <199809280502.GAA03233@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <9809280220.ZM6404@beatrice.rutgers.edu> from "Allen Smith" at Sep 28, 98 02:20:14 am
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> 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... not sure. i generally put /dev /var/dev and repopulate /var at boot from a tgz file. It is much more convenient, because you can then create new device entries if needed. luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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