From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 12 13:19:30 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 0934037B406 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:19:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87E0D43FB1 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:19:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from walterk1@earthlink.net) Received: from user-0cal9lv.cable.mindspring.com ([24.170.166.191] helo=earthlink.net) by snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18j4Hp-0004AP-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:19:22 -0800 Message-ID: <3E4ABA59.2040902@earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 16:19:21 -0500 From: Walter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Questions Subject: Re: Memory disk References: <3E4A7491.5020900@northnetworks.ca> 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 Steve Bertrand wrote: > 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? This is a novice wondering out loud: To keep things small, is it possible to use the new memory cards (for digital cameras) instead of a hard drive? The capacity on those is getting pretty large. Then you could drop even the CD. (I hoping to see them completely replace floppies, even as a boot device, some day.) Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message