From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 21 17:41:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA24940 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 17:41:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA24902 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 17:40:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ambrisko@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA09424 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 17:36:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from UNKNOWN(), claiming to be "crab.whistle.com" via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd009422; Wed Jan 21 17:36:30 1998 Received: (from ambrisko@localhost) by crab.whistle.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) id RAA17554 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 17:31:31 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Ambrisko Message-Id: <199801220131.RAA17554@crab.whistle.com> Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: One-floppy FreBSD + rich networking In-Reply-To: <19980121022935.45924@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> from John-Mark Gurney at "Jan 21, 98 02:29:35 am" To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 17:31:31 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL29 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk John-Mark Gurney writes: | Amancio Hasty scribbled this message on Jan 21: | > Since we are now blessed with fast ide cdroms , it would be really | > cool to have a CDROM version of picoBSD . The space is nice however, | > I am thinking that we can boot a lot faster from a CD ... | | not so much the speed booting, but think of what you could put on | 650megs of space? you could do a nice Xserver with that... where you | grab the xf86 config file off of some anon ftp server or something... | you would have complete local fonts... Well speaking of which we are booting FreeBSD of a cdrom with the cd mounted as the root file-system. We use this to build manufacturing servers so I don't have to worry about loading and installing software on our servers (they are at a different location). This stuff works a lot better in 3.0 as of Dec. 8th. 2.2.5 is broken. We do use a hard-disk for var and tmp but we initialize and copy var off the CD since the unionfs wasn't work in 2.2. It's kind of cool watching FreeBSD boot off a CD-ROM and when the CD has spun down it takes a while to login! Doug A.