From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 8 04:45:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA17234 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 04:45:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.seidata.com (ns1.seidata.com [208.10.211.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA17227; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 04:45:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@seidata.com) Received: from localhost (mike@localhost) by ns1.seidata.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA22257; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 07:45:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 07:45:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike To: Gary Palmer cc: shmit@kublai.com, Terry Lambert , Satoshi Asami , karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM as system disk In-Reply-To: <24187.907825684@gjp.erols.com> 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 On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Gary Palmer wrote: > When was the last time you put a FreeBSD CDROM into a drive with a controller > which supported the PC bootable-CD extensions Brian? :) :) It does seem to work quite well here (for initial boot up). I've never attempted making a CDROM a full-time fs, but it is appealing for things such as bastion hosts and other boxes doing filtering, etc. where having a RO fs with only /var RW (plus logs dumping to serial cable, of course) is desired. Just my $.02, -mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message