Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 12:02:13 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM as system disk Message-ID: <XFMail.981008120213.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199810071600.JAA27226@whistle.com>
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On 07-Oct-98 Doug Ambrisko wrote: > 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). Hmm.. no, but the other guy I was thinking of would probably have wished he knew you before he tried it =) I think he was going for something much simpler tho (ie just mount the CD as root and fake /var using MFS I think) --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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