From owner-freebsd-small Thu Mar 1 17:15:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from home.offwhite.net (home.offwhite.net [156.46.35.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A7DA37B718 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 17:15:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brennan@offwhite.net) Received: from localhost (brennan@localhost) by home.offwhite.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f221Fqh16990; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 19:15:52 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from brennan@offwhite.net) Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 19:15:52 -0600 (CST) From: Brennan Stehling To: "Chad R. Larson" Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: picobsd and alternatives In-Reply-To: <200103012303.QAA11839@freeway.dcfinc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What is the union filesystem? I have never heard of it. Can you point me to a site to read more about it? I also browsed the archives and contacted two people who had interest in creating a CD version... If I am able to figure a way to simply burn a working copy of FreeBSD from disk to CD and make it bootable I will do that. First I suppose I could make it work with simply a hard-drive and a floppy holding all config files. The filesystem can be set to read only on the disk drive to simulate a CD. And I could simulate my own NetInfo database by simply hosting config files on a website (perhaps password protected and ssl) where it simply pulls down a config file and sources it. The hard-drive could be defaulted to contact a given set of servers, like DNS can look to the root servers while the floppy can provide the primary config server hostname. The remote website could do access control based on remote IP and forward the request if necessary. Easy for me since I do web stuff all the time. Now to gather enough time to play... Brennan Stehling - software developer and system administrator my projects: home.offwhite.net (free personal hosting) www.greasydaemon.com (bsd search) On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Chad R. Larson wrote: > As I recall, Brennan Stehling wrote: > > Any thoughts on this? I have a feeling someone may have already > > thought of this or has already done it. If so, I would be interested > > in helping develop it further and promote it's use. > > This seems like a perfect use for the union filesystem. Boot your > system from the CD, but keep the config files (and local customizations > to them) on the floppy. > > -crl > -- > Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? > chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.com > DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message