From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 10 14:16:36 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABB4916A4CE for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 14:16:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from lilzmailfe01.liwest.at (lilzmailfe01.liwest.at [212.33.55.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08B5643F75 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 14:16:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dgw@liwest.at) Received: from [212.33.58.27] (helo=cm58-27.liwest.at) by lilzmailfe01.liwest.at with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1AJKKp-0003hH-32 for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 23:16:35 +0100 From: Daniela To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 23:12:20 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311102312.20529.dgw@liwest.at> Subject: Is the swap partition really required for a live FS CD-ROM? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 22:16:36 -0000 Hi all, I'm creating a Knoppix-like FreeBSD release (live filesystem, runs from CD) with 4.9 sources. I'm almost done, but I don't know what to do with swap. I read somewhere that I must have a swap partition in my /etc/fstab, can't this requirement be overridden? And can I create a vn0 device now, and mount it as a filesystem of type union over / so all directories appear writable? If I do this, is there some way to save these written files (preferably into a single compressed file on a floppy or USB memory stick) and restore them on the next boot? Please help me, I'm really stuck here. Daniela