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From: Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net>
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Subject: Re: Making a bootable CD for FreeBSD-stable? 
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How about doing a system with swap, /var & /tmp on local disk, but / &
/usr on CD-ROM, so the executables are protected?

	<mike

On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Dom Mitchell wrote:

> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 15:54:07 +0000
> From: Dom Mitchell <Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk>
> To: Greg Quinlan <greg@qmpgmc.ac.uk>
> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: Making a bootable CD for FreeBSD-stable? 
> 
> On 25 January 1999, "Greg Quinlan" proclaimed:
> > Has anyone got any ideas about a diskless configuration of FreeBSD on a
> > bootable CD-ROM.
> > 
> > ie.
> > no swap
> > /var & /tmp ... etc as ram disks.
> > 
> > Too complex or too easy?
> > 
> > All I need is for someone to point me in the right direction!
> 
> Look in the -current archives, about 6 months ago.  Satoshi asked this
> one.  I seem to recall that the conclusion was "don't bother, you'll fry
> your CDROM drive far too quickly".
> -- 
> Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator
> 
> ``Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.''
> 		-- Henry Spencer
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