Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 02:10:14 +0200 From: Vadim Vygonets <vadik-hackers@freebsd.vygo.net> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd running on a cdrom Message-ID: <20030105001014.GA76756@cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: <20030102220350.5971.qmail@web41013.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030102220350.5971.qmail@web41013.mail.yahoo.com>
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Quoth Joe on Thu, Jan 02, 2003: > I've been trying to get FreeBSD to run off a cdrom. Why, > well longs story, the shot version is it needs to be able to be > turned off and on like a lite switch. (I understand the on part > will take longer, but the off is just hit the button). CD-ROM is not what I would call a reliable media. May I suggest booting from the network (PXE) or booting from a hard disk and mounting the partitions read-only? If you choose read-only hard disk, you may wish to load an MFS root from /boot/loader.rc, or use read-only UFS root filesystem and an MFS partition for directories that must be writable at run-time. Vadik. -- If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life. -- Terry Pratchett, "Guards! Guards!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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