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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: Booting from NT ?
To: easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu (Allen Smith)
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 06:02:47 +0100 (MET)
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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

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