Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 11:20:24 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu> Cc: Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com>, Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>, Jonathan Mini <j_mini@efn.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: One-floppy FreBSD + rich networking Message-ID: <199801220050.LAA00403@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Jan 1998 16:48:06 -0800." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980121164621.14765B-100000@dale.salk.edu>
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> > Not to mention the rather attractive security and reliability implications > > of running off of a read-only medium. > > Can FreeBSD run from read-only media? Aren't there some files in /etc > that need to be writable at run-time? I think it's pretty close. You need a writable /var & /tmp, but apart from /etc/motd there doesn't appear to be anything else. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\
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