Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 22:09:13 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: chris@calldei.com Cc: Dave Hayes <dave@jetcafe.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Running FreeBSD off of CDROM Message-ID: <200101250509.f0P59D964664@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 24 Jan 2001 20:06:18 CST." <20010124200618.C776@holly.calldei.com> References: <20010124200618.C776@holly.calldei.com> <200101250053.QAA29043@hokkshideh.jetcafe.org>
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In message <20010124200618.C776@holly.calldei.com> Chris Costello writes: : What you'd need is a writable medium, preferable a hard disk, : with whatever file system you want to use on it, and a CD with a : stripped-down FreeBSD installation, complete with a kernel that : matches your hardware. You don't need a writable medium to run FreeBSD. Well, I take that back, you do need a writable partition, but that can be mfs. We run off CF which is mounted read only with the usual rc.diskless tricks for creating /var and /dev. Similar techniques could be used for booting off of cdrom. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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