Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 19:42:33 -0500 From: Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> To: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: How customized can an mfsroot be? Message-ID: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F7FAD@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> In-Reply-To: <x2uade45ae91004051730j87d11987j47b3b945971c85d6@mail.gmail.com> References: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F7D05@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <x2uade45ae91004051730j87d11987j47b3b945971c85d6@mail.gmail.com>
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> But ... why are you constricting yourself to use mfs_root? I have many t= imes ran FreeBSD completely from CDrom, which >will give you all 700 (or a DVD, 4.3G) usable space. > >I'd be happy to help, if you have questions. but please direct the questi= ons to the mailing list. The reason I was doing it this way was because I didn't know how to provide= the CD-ROM environment a writeable file system for /tmp and /var. Obviousl= y these have to be setup as some kind of ram based file system. What's the = trick?
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