From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 27 16:45: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C05F37B400 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 16:45:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from vcmr-19.rcs.rpi.edu (vcmr-19.rcs.rpi.edu [128.113.113.12]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g1S0j0lk162716; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 19:45:00 -0500 Received: from localhost (lansil@localhost) by vcmr-19.rcs.rpi.edu (8.8.5/8.8.6) with SMTP id TAA56864; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 19:45:00 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: vcmr-19.rcs.rpi.edu: lansil owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 19:45:00 -0500 (EST) From: "Lawrence S. Lansing" X-Sender: lansil@vcmr-19.rcs.rpi.edu To: Chris Faulhaber Cc: "Clark C . Evans" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: read-only CD-ROM boot partition for vinum webfarm? In-Reply-To: <20020227231000.GB42263@peitho.fxp.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) 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 > > Hello. I was wondering if it is possible to make a read-only > > boot partition (core kernel, static configuration, and /usr) > > for a web-farm application. I've posted this question to the > > freebsd-small list as well and will try to solicit comments > > there as it seems that is the most appropriate list. Thus > > far these are some of the challenges outlined on the freebsd-users@uk > > list... > > > > You may want to check out the LiveCD project from FUGSPBR > (FreeBSD Users Group, Sao Paulo, Brazil). See: You also might want to check out "FreeBSD To Go", a project that I have been working on. The URL is: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/freebsdtogo/ In case sourceforge is unresponsive, the latest release can be downloaded from: http://www.acm.rpi.edu/~lansil/freebsdtogo-0.2.tar.gz This project is based on some work I did for RPI last semester. The idea was to make a bootable CD that would boot into a web browser, to allow students to take a web-based test on their laptops. I finished this project for the school, and decided to make a more general solution that would trivialize the process of creating bootable FreeBSD CDs. I released this solution as "FreeBSD To Go" on sourceforge, a few weeks ago. Work is still in a very early stage, and there is no documentation except for comments in the code (a Makefile). I was going to wait until things were a little better before announcing it on -hackers, but c'est la vie. :) Enjoy. -Lawrence Lansing RPI Class of 2003 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message