Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 08:34:58 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> 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: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980122083209.16656A-100000@dale.salk.edu> In-Reply-To: <199801220050.LAA00403@word.smith.net.au>
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On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > 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. > O.K. How about this: would it be possible to use an mfs for /var. Of course, using an mfs for /tmp is trivial but /var needs to contain certain subdirs. Tom
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