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Date:      Tue, 3 Apr 2001 04:02:48 +1000 (EST)
From:      =?iso-8859-1?q?Paul=20Jansen?= <vlaero@yahoo.com.au>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   running from CD?
Message-ID:  <20010402180248.4195.qmail@web5105.mail.yahoo.com>

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I know that there are some Linux distos that allow you
to do this - anyway enough of that :)

Is it possible to run freebsd without a hard drive
instead accessing the required files off CDROM?  I can
already boot machines diskless but there will be know
other machine on the network to be able to provide
files.  I've got PicoBSD up and running but it's lack
of support for various cards is a problem for me.  I
also wouldn;t mind being able to run apache and samba
from a CD.  
I suppose you could use a write protected floppy to
provide machine specific setting.  Temp directories
and things could be mapped out to MFS like they are in
the diskless config.
Can this be done?  Has it been done?


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