From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 7 12:17:52 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5427F37B401 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 12:17:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from plum.cyber.com.au (plum.cyber.com.au [203.7.155.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C606B43ED8 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 12:17:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from army@cyber.com.au) Received: from vanilla.office.cyber.com.au (vanilla.office.cyber.com.au [192.168.155.226]) by plum.cyber.com.au (8.8.6/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA13387 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 07:17:41 +1100 (EST) Received: by vanilla.office.cyber.com.au (Postfix, from userid 1103) id 04B2257BAD8; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 07:17:39 +1100 (EST) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 07:17:39 +1100 From: Paul Armstrong To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd running on a cdrom Message-ID: <20030107201739.GF11745@vanilla.office.cyber.com.au> References: <20030105001014.GA76756@cs.huji.ac.il> <20030105.001255.53237870.imp@bsdimp.com> <20030105131030.X264@woozle.rinet.ru> <20030105.060626.74232678.imp@bsdimp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030105.060626.74232678.imp@bsdimp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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