From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 14 8: 3: 1 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 14 08:02:59 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gumby.usu.edu (gumby.usu.edu [129.123.1.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D84A537B400 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 08:02:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffy ("port 1530"@buffy.usu.edu [129.123.1.184]) by cc.usu.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #30472) with SMTP id <01JXOT9EU2KA984Q02@cc.usu.edu> for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 09:02:57 MDT Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 09:02:56 -0700 From: Hal Lynch Subject: RE: Boot CD of running system To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: hal@cc.usu.edu Message-id: <01JXOT9EU87W984Q02@cc.usu.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v337) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.337) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, December 13, 2000, at 06:08 PM, Otter wrote: > just a thought... shouldn't /tmp be in the "volatile files" section? > -Otter Of course, I made /tmp a link to /var/tmp. In the same vein there are many other things that need to be done, most of which I don't know about yet. :^} One of the things I did think about is having /etc/rc mount the / file system RO instead of RW. And of course fstab will have to be 'fixed'. Otter brought up a good point, there is much more to an 'able to run off CD system' than just making the CD bootable. Hints welcome here also. BTW I am receiving the freeebsd-questions mail now so feel free to send hints my way. :^) hal -trying everything I can think of- Lynch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message