From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 7 02:57:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA23605 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 02:57:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nu.binary.net (nu.binary.net [12.13.120.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA23594 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 02:57:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yura@matrix.binary.net) Received: from matrix.binary.net (yura@matrix.binary.net [12.13.120.2]) by nu.binary.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id EAA03855; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 04:57:13 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from yura@localhost) by matrix.binary.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id EAA05554; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 04:57:13 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19981007045713.A5273@binary.net> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 04:57:13 -0500 From: Yura Socolov To: Brian Behlendorf Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM as system disk Reply-To: yura@binary.net References: <19981007001529.A18576@nuxi.com> <199810070717.AAA08922@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <19981007092526.22860.qmail@hyperreal.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19981007092526.22860.qmail@hyperreal.org>; from Brian Behlendorf on Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 02:18:11AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 02:18:11AM -0700, 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 > 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 Another option can be LSBSD -- on a 120M LS120 floppy disk. Those run less then $90 lately, the disk costs around $10 or so, but it's writeable and so on... That would eliminate all read-only problems, and FreeBSD can run beautifully on 120M. Copying those disks is also not a problem, obviously. I am not sure about support of those drives, though, since i've never had one myself. -- yu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message