Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 14:36:18 +0600 From: Anton Voronin <anton@urc.ac.ru> To: Allen Smith <easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting from NT ? Message-ID: <360F4A82.2A2E8157@urc.ac.ru> References: <199809262242.PAA24523@usr04.primenet.com> <9809280220.ZM6404@beatrice.rutgers.edu>
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Allen Smith wrote:
> 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
>
>
It needs to write /dev/console but it does this before mounting according to
fstab. If you protect your hard drive it probably won't work. Try to just
mount it with -ro option.
Anton
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