Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 13:53:14 -1000 From: "Randal S. Masutani" <randal@comtest.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>, dinesh@alphaque.com, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PicoBSD now runs in 4MB! Message-ID: <199808052348.NAA04396@oldyeller.comtest.com> In-Reply-To: <199808052324.QAA01650@dingo.cdrom.com> References: Your message of "Wed, 05 Aug 1998 12:23:26 -1000." <199808052218.MAA04115@oldyeller.comtest.com>
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On 5 Aug 98, at 16:24, Mike Smith wrote: > > BTW, I also have noticed something odd. When booting from floppy with a > > write protected disk, two write protect error messages comes up when just > > mounting the floppy. Why is that? Does mounting the floppy cause a > > write to it? This is not good if every time it boots it writes to disk. > > This can reduce the life on a IDE Flash drive. > > Mount the filesystem readonly (-o ro). I guess I could try this. Is this the same as the -r option? > > I do not notice any write protect errors when mounting from a standard > > FreeBSD system only from PicoBSD. > > If you're mounting as the root filesystem, it's likely that stuff in > /dev/ is having its atime/mtime updated. AFAIK, it is just mounting the floppy /etc and copying the files over to the mfs /etc. This is part of the rc script that is on the PicoBSD mfs kernel. echo "Reading /etc from startup floppy..." mount /dev/fd0c /start_floppy echo "debug - copying files over" cd /start_floppy/etc cp -r . /etc/ The error occurs right after the mount command. Does anything look suspicious? I will try changing the line to: mount -r /dev/fd0c /start_floppy Randal Masutani ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ComTest Technologies, Inc. 3049 Ualena St., Suite 1005 Honolulu, Hawaii 96819 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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