From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 4 16:10:17 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 C94BC37B401 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 16:10:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from cs.huji.ac.il (cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.16.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D34D43EE5 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 16:10:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vadik@cs.huji.ac.il) Received: from dev.cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.16.100] ident=exim) by cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp id 18UyMo-00072n-00 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2003 02:10:14 +0200 Received: from vadik by dev.cs.huji.ac.il with local (Exim 3.22 #2) id 18UyMo-000K0U-00 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2003 02:10:14 +0200 Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 02:10:14 +0200 From: Vadim Vygonets To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd running on a cdrom Message-ID: <20030105001014.GA76756@cs.huji.ac.il> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <20030102220350.5971.qmail@web41013.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030102220350.5971.qmail@web41013.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: UNIX (unfortunately) 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 Quoth Joe on Thu, Jan 02, 2003: > I've been trying to get FreeBSD to run off a cdrom. Why, > well longs story, the shot version is it needs to be able to be > turned off and on like a lite switch. (I understand the on part > will take longer, but the off is just hit the button). CD-ROM is not what I would call a reliable media. May I suggest booting from the network (PXE) or booting from a hard disk and mounting the partitions read-only? If you choose read-only hard disk, you may wish to load an MFS root from /boot/loader.rc, or use read-only UFS root filesystem and an MFS partition for directories that must be writable at run-time. Vadik. -- If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life. -- Terry Pratchett, "Guards! Guards!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message