From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 4 15:57:12 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 216CE37B401 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 15:57:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.linuxiceberg.com (66-23-198-2.clients.speedfactory.net [66.23.198.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D57943FAF for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 15:57:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cfowler@outpostsentinel.com) Received: from [192.168.1.7] ([192.168.1.7]) by www.linuxiceberg.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h24NvHU01887; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 18:57:17 -0500 Subject: Tiny BSD Pages From: Chris Fowler To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 (1.0.3-6) Date: 04 Mar 2003 18:57:24 -0500 Message-Id: <1046822245.6445.68.camel@devel> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I do one thing in Linux that I want to do in FreeBSD. I store my root file system as a blow fish, gzipped, encrypted file on a DiskOnChip. When the Linux kernel boots it loads an initial ramdisk that will open this file, uncompress, and decrypt. I will then write the good data to a ram disk. Upon completion, it will terminate itself and the Linux kernel will now mount /dev/ram7 as its root fs. I do much more in my loader. I allow flashing of that file, I allow an alternate method of getting the same file. It can be on a tftp server or in a URL like http://192.168.2.1/sw/sw-package. But that is in the details. I would like to do the exact same thing with FreeBSD but I can not find any leads on this type of configuration. Any pointers? Thanks, chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message