From owner-freebsd-small Sat Oct 6 10:24:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from iguana.aciri.org (iguana.aciri.org [192.150.187.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2969737B417 for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 10:24:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rizzo@localhost) by iguana.aciri.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f96HLKb66068; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 10:21:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rizzo) From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <200110061721.f96HLKb66068@iguana.aciri.org> Subject: Re: Writable CD's In-Reply-To: from Dirk-Willem van Gulik at "Oct 6, 2001 8:25:26 am" To: dirkx@webweaving.org (Dirk-Willem van Gulik) Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 10:21:20 -0700 (PDT) Cc: eugen@svzserv.kemerovo.su, famzon@bigfoot.com, small@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > What I've found to work well as a 'quick' hack is to simply make an UFS > inside a file with newfs/vnconfig and burn that onto a CD - and threat is > as a diskless machine. That feels very much like a normal file system and > you need to change little. this seems to be different from what was requested in the original email, which seems to be "how to use a CDRW as a read/write writable filesystem". In any case, i tried the UFS-over-CD trick (actually something more trivial, such as burning an umounted filesystem onto a CD. Small disks at the time...) some time ago with different success. On some version of FreeBSD (2.2.x i seem to remember) it did work, whereas 3.x with the same image would quickly panic during or after mounting the filesystem, even if mounted readonly. The problem was, i thought, the OS not being too happy for being unable to write something onto the disk. Has the situation changed ? cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message