From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 7 09:26:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA23282 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 09:26:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA23255 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 09:26:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ambrisko@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA18992 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 09:13:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from crab.whistle.com(207.76.205.112), claiming to be "whistle.com" via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdv18988; Wed Oct 7 16:13:30 1998 Received: (from ambrisko@localhost) by whistle.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id JAA27226 for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 09:00:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ambrisko) From: Doug Ambrisko Message-Id: <199810071600.JAA27226@whistle.com> Subject: Re: CDROM as system disk In-Reply-To: from Daniel O'Connor at "Oct 7, 98 07:20:28 pm" To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 09:00:41 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL29 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Daniel O'Connor writes: | | Actually, I think someone has already at least done the basics of it, | (ie having a CD boot into FreeBSD and mount itself as root) if you're | interested I'll see if I can find some more info out about it. Maybe you where thinking of me. For manufacturing purposes we made a bootable CDROM. It mounts the CD as the root file system. I modified /etc/rc to fdisk/disklabel/newfs the IDE disk drive and then copy /var on to the IDE disk drive. Then mount it as /var and boot to multi-user. We actually copy some more stuff to to IDE drive for loading system since CD-ROM are not a good random access media. Even the fast ones are slow as shown by doing a login until it gets cached in ram. The floppy is useful to configure the image (just set the BIOS to boot the CD). Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message