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Date:      Fri, 25 Sep 1998 21:12:50 -0400
From:      "Allen Smith" <easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith)
Cc:        luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, drussell@saturn-tech.com, jflowers@ezo.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Booting from NT ?
Message-ID:  <9809252112.ZM8803@beatrice.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>   "Re: Booting from NT ?" (Sep 25,  8:35pm)
References:  <199809252232.PAA20186@usr04.primenet.com>

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On Sep 25,  8:35pm, Terry Lambert (possibly) wrote:
> > > > The real pain here is that FreeBSD won't boot on a pure read-only
> > > > file store without modification (the existance of which was posted
> > > > about several times by the ROM/FLASH people).
> > > 
> > > uh ? booting the kernel obviously works because i have done it reading
> > > from a CD or the network -- and a readonly root also seems to work,
> > > because I have been using diskless with a readonly root for a long time.
> > 
> > Terry is quite fond of the myth he puts forward above, despite the fact 
> > that many people over the years have proven that FreeBSD runs quite 
> > happily from readonly media (me too).
> 
> You have to change the rc scripts to not try to generate the /var/run
> information, or some of the startups *will* fail.
> 
> You can make it run with modifications, in other words.
> 
> Without modifications, it limps.

Umm... one generally finds that things in /var will _var_y, yes... I
would suggest that having the stuff in /var be on seperate, writeable
media makes sense (along with swap files, including space for a mfs
/tmp).

	-Allen

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