From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 2 16:55:20 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9850B37B401 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 16:55:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [63.93.4.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F28F243ED4 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 16:55:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h030tIeH021983 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 17:55:18 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) with ESMTP id h030tHRO021980; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 17:55:18 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 17:55:17 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: Joe Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd running on a cdrom In-Reply-To: <20030102220350.5971.qmail@web41013.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20030102175307.R21968@wonkity.com> References: <20030102220350.5971.qmail@web41013.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Joe wrote: > I've been trying to get FreeBSD to run off a cdrom. Why, > well longs story, the shot version is it needs to be able to be > turned off and on like a lite switch. (I understand the on part > will take longer, but the off is just hit the button). When I > release this box it will have no console access. Just run everything from MFS. From a couple of weeks ago on this list, here's the most effective CD-building package I've found yet: http://www.freesbie.org It does look for and mount FreeBSD and other types of harddrive partitions in its startup, but that should be easy to remove. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message