On 4/5/10, Peter Steele <[email protected]> wrote: >> But ... why are you constricting yourself to use mfs_root? I have many >> times ran FreeBSD completely from CDrom, which >>will give you all 700 (or a DVD, 4.3G) usable space. >> >>I'd be happy to help, if you have questions. but please direct the >> questions to the mailing list. > > The reason I was doing it this way was because I didn't know how to provide > the CD-ROM environment a writeable file system for /tmp and /var. Obviously > these have to be setup as some kind of ram based file system. What's the > trick? > >
If FreeBSD cannot write to /tmp or /var on boot, it automatically creates a MFS filesystems for those mountpoints and mounts them during boot. You don't need to do anything. It works as the same readonly compactflash environments out there. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
