Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 07:17:39 +1100 From: Paul Armstrong <army@cyber.com.au> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd running on a cdrom Message-ID: <20030107201739.GF11745@vanilla.office.cyber.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20030105.060626.74232678.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <20030105001014.GA76756@cs.huji.ac.il> <20030105.001255.53237870.imp@bsdimp.com> <20030105131030.X264@woozle.rinet.ru> <20030105.060626.74232678.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 06:06:26AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: > : Well, while I'd certainly agree with you regarding reliability (BTW, how > many : _read_ cycles do contemporary flashdisks support?), there is at least > one major : question: where to boot from? especially in the case of > standalone : moving-parts-free router ;-) > > Read cycles is very huge, like 10^10 or so. The CF parts can be made > bootable, so not a problem. The other thing of note is that the CD-ROM is often used because it's read-only. Is there a way to make the CF read-only? Paul -- CD-Server A script for building CD-ROM based FreeBSD servers http://members.optushome.com.au/psarmstr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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