From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 19 9: 4:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DFD537B400 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 09:04:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-209.246.214.76.dial1.philadelphia1.level3.net ([209.246.214.76] helo=sparky) by gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16RyuW-0000vx-00; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 09:04:09 -0800 From: Jud To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Nathan Mace Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 12:04:35 -0500 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) In-Reply-To: <200201191618.LAA04165@uce55.uchaswv.edu> Message-Id: Subject: Re: mfs filesystems MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Mailer: Opera 6.01 build 1026 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 1/19/2002 11:15:30 AM, Nathan Mace wrote: >ok, that helped a little, but is there a way to mount a mfs partition on a >system with no hard drive? i'm making a freebsd OS that boots from a cdrom, >and needs to mount /var and /tmp as mfs so that they can be writeable. any >ideas how to do this without a hard drive, which would also mean doing it >without a swap partition At http://www.google.com and http://groups.google.com the search "freebsd diskless" found a shade under 20,000 hits. Several of the hits on the first couple of pages did look relevant, though since I've never tried running a diskless configuration my assessment of relevance may be suspect. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message