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From: "Ben Kirkpatrick, ELI" <blkirk@float.eli.net>
To: Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu>
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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: One-floppy FreBSD + rich networking 
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   Couldn't this be overcome by including DOS FS support and using some
space out of C:\TEMP .  Swapfiles could be accomplished in the sameway
with vnode support.  (Leo's getting Largerrrr!)
--Ben Kirkpatrick

On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Tom Bartol wrote:
> 
> Can FreeBSD run from read-only media?  Aren't there some files in /etc
> that need to be writable at run-time?
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
>