Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 19:37:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Dennis <jimd@mistery.mcafee.com> To: jnoetzel@intermind.com (Jeremy Noetzelman) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Custom Distributions Message-ID: <199605250237.TAA15273@mistery.mcafee.com> In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960524214807.00a098d0@intermind.com> from "Jeremy Noetzelman" at May 24, 96 02:48:07 pm
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> > I've created a custom filesystem and kernel that I wish to install on > several identical machines. For simplicities sake I'd like to burn it onto a > CDROM and install it similarly to the way you'd install the 2.1 distribution. > > How is this done? > > Alternatively, I've been thinking about using a CDROM as a boot device, and > booting from a live filesystem for the / and the /usr filesystems, and using > a seperate SCSI harddrive for the more volitile /home filesystem. This would > be my ideal solution, but I'm not sure if it can be done. A friend of mine uses older models of SCSI hard drive, with a set of hardware write-disable pins on them -- which he attaches to a switch that he puts in a custom external enclosure. He uses NetBSD on SPARC hardware and configures / and /usr to be read-only. CD's are much too slow for his applications. Recently I've been eyeing PCMCIA memory cards (16 - 20 Mb) as a minimal hardware read/only solution. Will / and /sbin fit in that? I'd like to just get to the point where I could mount these filesystems read-only under FreeBSD. I wouldn't consider a step-by-step guide to be condescending. > I'd appreciate any help you can offer me. > Jeremy Noetzelman I'd like to hear more about this too. Jim Dennis, System Administrator, McAfee Associates
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