Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 16:48:06 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu> To: Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com> Cc: 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: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980121164621.14765B-100000@dale.salk.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980121170422.29748A-100000@echonyc.com>
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On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Snob Art Genre wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Amancio Hasty wrote: > > > Since we are now blessed with fast ide cdroms , it would be really > > cool to have a CDROM version of picoBSD . The space is nice however, > > I am thinking that we can boot a lot faster from a CD ... > > Not to mention the rather attractive security and reliability implications > of running off of a read-only medium. > > > Ben > Can FreeBSD run from read-only media? Aren't there some files in /etc that need to be writable at run-time? Tom
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