From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 2 11: 2:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web5105.mail.yahoo.com (web5105.mail.yahoo.com [216.115.106.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CEA1B37B719 for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 11:02:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vlaero@yahoo.com.au) Message-ID: <20010402180248.4195.qmail@web5105.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [203.101.92.23] by web5105.mail.yahoo.com; Tue, 03 Apr 2001 04:02:48 EST Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 04:02:48 +1000 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Paul=20Jansen?= Subject: running from CD? To: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? _____________________________________________________________________________ http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - Have news, stocks, weather, sports and more in one place. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message