From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 7 02:50:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA22300 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 02:50:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA22283; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 02:50:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id TAA13939; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 19:20:28 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19981007092526.22860.qmail@hyperreal.org> Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 19:20:28 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Brian Behlendorf Subject: Re: CDROM as system disk Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@NUXI.com, (Satoshi Asami) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 07-Oct-98 Brian Behlendorf wrote: > 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 Yeah, this sounds kinda neat :) > 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... Hmm.. maybe look for a floppy which has such things in it..? I can forsee the security problems but it might work for some people. Actually, I think someone has already at least done the basics of it, (ie having a CD boot into FreeBSD and mount itself as root) if you're interested I'll see if I can find some more info out about it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message