From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 7 02:25:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA18753 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 02:25:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hyperreal.org (taz.hyperreal.org [209.133.83.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA18733 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 02:25:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@hyperreal.org) Received: (qmail 22861 invoked by uid 24); 7 Oct 1998 09:25:26 -0000 Message-ID: <19981007092526.22860.qmail@hyperreal.org> X-Sender: brian@hyperreal.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.1 Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 02:18:11 -0700 To: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami), obrien@NUXI.com From: Brian Behlendorf Subject: Re: CDROM as system disk Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199810070717.AAA08922@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> References: <19981007001529.A18576@nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12:17 AM 10/7/98 -0700, Satoshi Asami wrote: >CDBSD? :) Run with this. With 32x CDROM drives as cheap as they are, and the ability to burn CD's pretty accessible, this would be a *very* economic way to provide standard distributions in an institutional setting. There's some other things in /etc I'd want to be able to change without having to create a new CD (for example, /etc/nologin), but that's a matter of configuration and could be obtained via LDAP if you're creative. So CDBSD + DHCP + LDAP would be really interesting. This might also be a good way to provide non-technical users with a no-brainer installation, though I fear they'll eventually want to do things like add a disk drive which would require editing /etc/fstab, etc. It might be worth thinking if a slight change in the BSD file hierarchy to support this better would be merited... Brian --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- Where will YOU be Oct 14-16? | brian@apache.org ApacheCon '98! http://www.apachecon.com/ | brian@hyperreal.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message