Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 03:00:27 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: =?iso-8859-1?q?Paul=20Jansen?= <vlaero@yahoo.com.au> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: running from CD? Message-ID: <15049.33563.728186.964683@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <4916749@toto.iv>
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Paul Jansen <vlaero@yahoo.com.au> types: > I know that there are some Linux distos that allow you > to do this - anyway enough of that :) > > Is it possible to run freebsd without a hard drive > instead accessing the required files off CDROM? I can > already boot machines diskless but there will be know > other machine on the network to be able to provide > files. I've got PicoBSD up and running but it's lack > of support for various cards is a problem for me. I > also wouldn;t mind being able to run apache and samba > from a CD. It's clearly possible - the second CD of the standard distribution does this. I don't know that anyone has documented how to do it, though. Possibly it just takes making sure the kernel you want to run is compiled with the CD9660 and CD9660_ROOT options. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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