From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 7 06:47:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA21021 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 06:47:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles29.castles.com [208.214.165.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA20996 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 06:47:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA03076; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 06:52:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810071352.GAA03076@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: yura@binary.net cc: Brian Behlendorf , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM as system disk In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 07 Oct 1998 04:57:13 CDT." <19981007045713.A5273@binary.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 06:52:10 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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