Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 09:25:24 +0200 From: Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be> To: Cristobal Miguelo <cristobalmiguelo2@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting to CD and the handing off to HD Message-ID: <20041006072524.GA46388@lori.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <20041004035805.51496.qmail@web53801.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20041004035805.51496.qmail@web53801.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 08:58:05PM -0700, Cristobal Miguelo wrote: > Hello, > > I'm going to be working on a firewall box where I want to boot to CD > and run an integrity check on the Hard Drive. If the Hard Drive checks > out OK, I want the CD to then hand off to the hard drive and boot the > hard drive. > > Is that possible? What man pages and/or web pages should I read to > make it happen? > > Thanks! > Cristobal Maybe you could just put the entire thing on a livecd? Your config-files could be on a write-protected floppy-disk. I suggest you use ports/sysutils/freesbie to create your own custom livecd, and make it do something like: mount -o ro /dev/fd0 /floppy mount -t union /floppy /etc GH -- :wq
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