Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 02:54:57 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM as system disk Message-ID: <19981007025457.D19684@nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810071156090.14555-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>; from Andrzej Bialecki on Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 11:57:26AM %2B0200 References: <199810070915.CAA09589@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810071156090.14555-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
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> > FreeBSD) that boots and runs from CD-ROMs? (I'm not talking about > > installation CDs here -- I want to know about systems that use CD-ROMs > > for system disks during normal operations.) > > Hmm... I thought this is the case with 'live filesystem' disk from 4-CD > set produced by Walnut Creek... Never seen it, so I might be wrong. Nope, the Live filesystem CDROM is more a backup of a fresh install. It doesn't have a usage /etc/rc.conf. Also if you tried to use it as /, it would try to write into a RO /var/tmp, etc... -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.ucdavis.edu -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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