Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 19:20:28 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Brian Behlendorf <brian@hyperreal.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@NUXI.com, (Satoshi Asami) <asami@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: CDROM as system disk Message-ID: <XFMail.981007192028.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <19981007092526.22860.qmail@hyperreal.org>
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On 07-Oct-98 Brian Behlendorf wrote: > At 12:17 AM 10/7/98 -0700, Satoshi Asami wrote: > >CDBSD? :) > Run with this. With 32x CDROM drives as cheap as they are, and the ability Yeah, this sounds kinda neat :) > This might also be a good way to provide non-technical users with a > no-brainer installation, though I fear they'll eventually want to do things > like add a disk drive which would require editing /etc/fstab, etc. It > might be worth thinking if a slight change in the BSD file hierarchy to > support this better would be merited... Hmm.. maybe look for a floppy which has such things in it..? I can forsee the security problems but it might work for some people. Actually, I think someone has already at least done the basics of it, (ie having a CD boot into FreeBSD and mount itself as root) if you're interested I'll see if I can find some more info out about it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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