From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 24 21:29:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mta5.rcsntx.swbell.net (mta5.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C976C37B400 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 21:29:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from holly.calldei.com ([208.191.149.190]) by mta5.rcsntx.swbell.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0G7P00K3BDLMQZ@mta5.rcsntx.swbell.net> for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 23:22:35 -0600 (CST) Received: (from chris@localhost) by holly.calldei.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id f0P5Ohu09016; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 23:24:43 -0600 (CST envelope-from chris) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 23:23:41 -0600 From: Chris Costello Subject: Re: Running FreeBSD off of CDROM In-reply-to: <200101250509.f0P59D964664@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 10:09:13PM -0700 To: Warner Losh Cc: Dave Hayes , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chris@calldei.com Message-id: <20010124232341.D776@holly.calldei.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i References: <20010124200618.C776@holly.calldei.com> <200101250053.QAA29043@hokkshideh.jetcafe.org> <20010124200618.C776@holly.calldei.com> <200101250509.f0P59D964664@harmony.village.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, January 24, 2001, Warner Losh wrote: > 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. I'm assuming that there's some data he wants to permenantly store on a disk. But yes, just like the live FS CDROM, MFS can easily be used. -- +-------------------+------------------------------------------+ | Chris Costello | If the code and the comments disagree, | | chris@calldei.com | then both are probably wrong. - Schryer | +-------------------+------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message