From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Apr 29 11:38:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA01707 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 11:38:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.virginia.edu (mail.Virginia.EDU [128.143.2.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA01258 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 11:34:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from atf3r@cs.virginia.edu) Received: from ares.cs.virginia.edu by mail.virginia.edu id aa12865; 29 Apr 98 14:34 EDT Received: from mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU (mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU [128.143.67.12]) by ares.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA08111 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 14:34:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (atf3r@localhost) by mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA21367 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 14:33:59 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU: atf3r owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 14:33:33 -0400 (EDT) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" Reply-To: Adrian Filipi-Martin To: Greg Lehey Subject: Re: Demo CDs (was: blessing) In-Reply-To: <19980429145242.02565@papillon.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > OK, so what do we need? My thought is for two or three preinstalled > versions: > > 1. A CD-ROM-based version which will boot from CD-ROM, Microsoft or > floppy, create an MFS file system for things that really need to > write to "disk", and other than that run from CD-ROM. Create the > / file system on the mfs and symlinks to just about everything > except /tmp, /var/tmp and /home to the CD-ROM. With any luck, we > should be able to get away with 4 MB MFS. If the machine had a disk with a well supported DOS-ish fs on it, then you could configure a vnode on to a large file and mount that as the non-volitile filesytem. Perhaps the fbsdboot.exe program could be extended to support this. Adrian -- adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| If I were stranded on a desert island, and System Administrator --->>>| I could only have one OS for my computer, Neurosurgical Visualization Lab ->>| it would be FreeBSD. Think about it..... http://www.nvl.virginia.edu/ ->| http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message