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From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
To: Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu>
cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com>,
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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: One-floppy FreBSD + rich networking 
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On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Tom Bartol wrote:

> 
> 
> On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Mike Smith wrote:
> 
> > > > 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.
> > 
> 
> O.K. How about this:  would it be possible to use an mfs for /var.  Of
> course, using an mfs for /tmp is trivial but /var needs to contain certain
> subdirs.

Hmm... The setup I used gives you almost identical results. All programs
reside on MFS, and setup is loaded from floppy on startup (which is then
unmounted and can be pulled out of the drive).

Andrzej Bialecki

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