From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 12 8:23:41 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E67237B401 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 08:23:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from diana.northnetworks.ca (att-ws20.switchview.com [216.13.70.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B94C443FBF for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 08:23:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from iaccounts@northnetworks.ca) Received: from northnetworks.ca ([192.168.0.250]) by diana.northnetworks.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h1CGNYd03934 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:23:35 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from iaccounts@northnetworks.ca) Message-ID: <3E4A7491.5020900@northnetworks.ca> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:21:37 -0500 From: Steve Bertrand User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021218 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Memory disk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have built quite a few FBSD-ipfw routers/bridges the last while, and now I want to take it to the next level. I would like to copy an entire FreeBSD install to CD and then do the following: - Boot from external media and create a 2GB memory disk - Copy the contents of the entire FreeBSD install on the CD to the memory disk - Load FreeBSD from the memory disk, as it would as if I was booting normally from HDD - Work on the pc as normal. The reason for this is so I can make my boxes much smaller and much faster (no hdd i/o). 1. Is it possible to do a custom r/o install of Free onto a CD? 2. Is it possible to run FreeBSd out of memory with no hdd? Tks for all help in advance. Steve Bertrand To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message