Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 22:42:25 +0930 From: Matthew Thyer <thyerm@camtech.net.au> To: obrien@NUXI.com Cc: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM as system disk Message-ID: <361B68B9.F7ECE3A2@camtech.net.au> References: <199810070915.CAA09589@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810071156090.14555-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> <19981007025457.D19684@nuxi.com>
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Sounds like a job for a unionfs over the Live filesystem CDROM David O'Brien wrote: > > > > FreeBSD) that boots and runs from CD-ROMs? (I'm not talking about > > > installation CDs here -- I want to know about systems that use CD-ROMs > > > for system disks during normal operations.) > > > > Hmm... I thought this is the case with 'live filesystem' disk from 4-CD > > set produced by Walnut Creek... Never seen it, so I might be wrong. > > Nope, the Live filesystem CDROM is more a backup of a fresh install. It > doesn't have a usage /etc/rc.conf. Also if you tried to use it as /, it > would try to write into a RO /var/tmp, etc... > > -- > -- David (obrien@NUXI.ucdavis.edu -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- /=====================================================================\ |Work: Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au | Home: thyerm@camtech.net.au| \=====================================================================/ "If it is true that our Universe has a zero net value for all conserved quantities, then it may simply be a fluctuation of the vacuum of some larger space in which our Universe is imbedded. In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time." E. P. Tryon from "Nature" Vol.246 Dec.14, 1973 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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