Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 02:18:11 -0700 From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@hyperreal.org> To: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami), obrien@NUXI.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM as system disk Message-ID: <19981007092526.22860.qmail@hyperreal.org> In-Reply-To: <199810070717.AAA08922@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> References: <19981007001529.A18576@nuxi.com>
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At 12:17 AM 10/7/98 -0700, Satoshi Asami wrote: >CDBSD? :) Run with this. With 32x CDROM drives as cheap as they are, and the ability to burn CD's pretty accessible, this would be a *very* economic way to provide standard distributions in an institutional setting. There's some other things in /etc I'd want to be able to change without having to create a new CD (for example, /etc/nologin), but that's a matter of configuration and could be obtained via LDAP if you're creative. So CDBSD + DHCP + LDAP would be really interesting. This might also be a good way to provide non-technical users with a no-brainer installation, though I fear they'll eventually want to do things like add a disk drive which would require editing /etc/fstab, etc. It might be worth thinking if a slight change in the BSD file hierarchy to support this better would be merited... Brian --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- Where will YOU be Oct 14-16? | brian@apache.org ApacheCon '98! http://www.apachecon.com/ | brian@hyperreal.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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