From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 21 16:59:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA20305 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 16:59:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (vh1.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA20242 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 16:59:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA00403; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 11:20:26 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199801220050.LAA00403@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Tom Bartol cc: Snob Art Genre , Amancio Hasty , Andrzej Bialecki , Jonathan Mini , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: One-floppy FreBSD + rich networking In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 21 Jan 1998 16:48:06 -0800." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 11:20:24 +1030 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > Not to mention the rather attractive security and reliability implications > > of running off of a read-only medium. > > Can FreeBSD run from read-only media? Aren't there some files in /etc > that need to be writable at run-time? I think it's pretty close. You need a writable /var & /tmp, but apart from /etc/motd there doesn't appear to be anything else. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\