Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 06:52:10 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: yura@binary.net Cc: Brian Behlendorf <brian@hyperreal.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM as system disk Message-ID: <199810071352.GAA03076@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Oct 1998 04:57:13 CDT." <19981007045713.A5273@binary.net>
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> > 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. Yup. I have an old -current system on LS-120. Performance is unstellar. > 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. There are problems with the old boot1/boot2 loader relating to these disks. The new loader should get it right (this applies to ATAPI Zip drives too), although you need a BIOS that understands the drive to boot from it. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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