From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 3 1: 0:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4661B37B71A for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 01:00:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 70280 invoked by uid 100); 3 Apr 2001 08:00:27 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15049.33563.728186.964683@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 03:00:27 -0500 To: =?iso-8859-1?q?Paul=20Jansen?= Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: running from CD? In-Reply-To: <4916749@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Paul Jansen 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. 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