From owner-freebsd-small Sat Oct 6 5: 5:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from kim.ispra.webweaving.org (adsl-66-124-87-42.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [66.124.87.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFCCB37B401 for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 05:05:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kim.ispra.webweaving.org (kim.ispra.webweaving.org [10.10.0.2]) by kim.ispra.webweaving.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA27914; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 06:25:27 GMT X-Passed: MX on Ispra.WebWeaving.org Sat, 6 Oct 2001 06:25:27 GMT and masked X-No-Spam: Neither the receipients nor the senders email address(s) are to be used for Unsolicited (Commercial) Email without the explicit written consent of either party; as a per-message fee is incurred for inbound and outbound traffic to the originator. Posted-Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 06:25:27 GMT Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 08:25:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik X-Sender: dirkx@kim.ispra.webweaving.org To: Eugene Grosbein Cc: Andrew Hannam , small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Writable CD's In-Reply-To: <3BBDA8E1.271F2E4B@svzserv.kemerovo.su> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What I've found to work well as a 'quick' hack is to simply make an UFS inside a file with newfs/vnconfig and burn that onto a CD - and threat is as a diskless machine. That feels very much like a normal file system and you need to change little. Dw On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > > With the recent price drops with writable CD's - is there any support in > > FreeBSD/PicoBSD (or even Linux) for using packet writing capabilities to > > implement a read/write file system (the same way that Roxio DirectCD does > > for WinXX platforms)? > > > > This sort of capability with a CDRW would be ideal for large Pico or small > > FreeBSD installations. > > There were some posts to freebsd lists about work-in-progress on > support of UDF filesystem (that's what DirectCD does), > but it was long time ago. No informaton about working realization. > > Eugene > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message