From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 7 08:17:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA08505 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 08:17:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.volant.org (phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA08500 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 08:17:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patl@phoenix.volant.org) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org Received: from asimov.phoenix.volant.org ([205.179.79.65]) by phoenix.volant.org with smtp (Exim 1.92 #8) id 0zQvKk-0003eS-00; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 08:16:58 -0700 Received: from localhost by asimov.phoenix.volant.org (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA22287; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 08:14:14 -0700 Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 08:14:14 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Subject: Re: CDROM as system disk To: yura@binary.net cc: Brian Behlendorf , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19981007045713.A5273@binary.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Another option can be LSBSD -- on a 120M LS120 floppy disk. Those run less > then $90 lately, the disk costs around $10 or so, but it's writeable and > so on... > > That would eliminate all read-only problems, and FreeBSD can run > beautifully on 120M. > > Copying those disks is also not a problem, obviously. > > I am not sure about support of those drives, though, since i've never had > one myself. My experience is that none of the removable media systems has the long term duty cycle reliability necessary for the system disks. I haven't tried the LS120 yet; but I see nothing in the technology that would cause me to expect them to be better suited for this purpose than a Jaz, Zip, Syquest, etc. drive. Note that I would be -very- happy to be proven wrong. I keep one machine as a multi-OS system so that I have occasional access to environments that I don't use enough to dedicate a machine to. To avoid even the slightest possibility of any system install trashing any of the others, I use removable system disks instead of multi-boot systems. Since none of the removable media drives has proven to be sufficiently reliable, I've had to fall back to a caddy system. -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message