From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 7 19:32:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA23042 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 19:32:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA23035 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 19:32:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id MAA20215; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 12:02:14 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199810071600.JAA27226@whistle.com> Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 12:02:13 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Doug Ambrisko Subject: Re: CDROM as system disk Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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