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Date:      Wed, 27 Feb 2002 19:45:00 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Lawrence S. Lansing" <lansil@rpi.edu>
To:        Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org>
Cc:        "Clark C . Evans" <cce@clarkevans.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: read-only CD-ROM boot partition for vinum webfarm?
Message-ID:  <Pine.A41.3.96.1020227193523.21464B-100000@vcmr-19.rcs.rpi.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20020227231000.GB42263@peitho.fxp.org>

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> > Hello.  I was wondering if it is possible to make a read-only
> > boot partition (core kernel, static configuration, and /usr)
> > for a web-farm application.   I've posted this question to the
> > freebsd-small list as well and will try to solicit comments 
> > there as it seems that is the most appropriate list.  Thus 
> > far these are some of the challenges outlined on the freebsd-users@uk
> > list...
> > 
> 
> You may want to check out the LiveCD project from FUGSPBR
> (FreeBSD Users Group, Sao Paulo, Brazil).  See:

You also might want to check out "FreeBSD To Go", a project that I have
been working on.  The URL is:
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/freebsdtogo/
In case sourceforge is unresponsive, the latest release can be downloaded
from: 
http://www.acm.rpi.edu/~lansil/freebsdtogo-0.2.tar.gz

This project is based on some work I did for RPI last semester.  The idea
was to make a bootable CD that would boot into a web browser, to allow
students to take a web-based test on their laptops.  I finished this
project for the school, and decided to make a more general solution that
would trivialize the process of creating bootable FreeBSD CDs.  I released
this solution as "FreeBSD To Go" on sourceforge, a few weeks ago. 

Work is still in a very early stage, and there is no documentation except
for comments in the code (a Makefile).  I was going to wait until things
were a little better before announcing it on -hackers, but c'est la vie.
:)

Enjoy.

-Lawrence Lansing
RPI Class of 2003



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