From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 7 06:13:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA15738 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 06:13:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from goliath.camtech.net.au (goliath.camtech.net.au [203.5.73.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA15727 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 06:13:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thyerm@camtech.net.au) Received: from camtech.net.au (dialup-ad-12-40.camtech.net.au [203.55.242.40]) by goliath.camtech.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.2) with ESMTP id WAA21885; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 22:42:19 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <361B68B9.F7ECE3A2@camtech.net.au> Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 22:42:25 +0930 From: Matthew Thyer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-BETA i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: obrien@NUXI.com CC: Andrzej Bialecki , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM as system disk References: <199810070915.CAA09589@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <19981007025457.D19684@nuxi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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