From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 7 02:55:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA23198 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 02:55:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [128.120.56.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA23190 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 02:55:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) id CAA19810; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 02:54:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19981007025457.D19684@nuxi.com> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 02:54:57 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Andrzej Bialecki Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM as system disk Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <199810070915.CAA09589@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Andrzej Bialecki on Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 11:57:26AM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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