On Wednesday, January 24, 2001, Warner Losh wrote:
> You don't need a writable medium to run FreeBSD. Well, I take that
> back, you do need a writable partition, but that can be mfs. We run
> off CF which is mounted read only with the usual rc.diskless tricks
> for creating /var and /dev. Simil
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jordan Hubbard writes:
: You don't even need a disk if you have enough memory. You can come up
: with an MFS and put everything you need to write on in that (via union
: mount or symlinks or whatever).
At timing solutions we found union mount to be a non-starter.
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fred
Clift writes:
: When you figure it out and get it working, make a web page giving the
: step-by-step guide to how to do it... :)
We get pretty far by having
root_rw_mount=NO
diskless_mount=/etc/rc.diskless2
varsize=8192
update_motd=NO
in rc.conf and a slight
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Chris Costello writes:
:What you'd need is a writable medium, preferable a hard disk,
: with whatever file system you want to use on it, and a CD with a
: stripped-down FreeBSD installation, complete with a kernel that
: matches your hardware.
You don't need a w
>What you'd need is a writable medium, preferable a hard disk,
> with whatever file system you want to use on it, and a CD with a
> stripped-down FreeBSD installation, complete with a kernel that
> matches your hardware.
You don't even need a disk if you have enough memory. You can come up
w
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Dave Hayes wrote:
> I was asked recently if it was possible to run a FreeBSD server
> entirely off of CDROM. Now I know that things like /var need to be
> writable, and that the initial question as worded was rather naive.
> However, modulo writable filesystems which can be m
Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>When you boot into your CD, and after the CD is mounted as /,
> mount the disk as a union with the CD /. The result is that
> you'll have the executables on the CD, but any data being written
> will go to the disk.
Hmm, I had considered that stra
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 04:53:39PM -0800, Dave Hayes wrote:
> I was asked recently if it was possible to run a FreeBSD server
> entirely off of CDROM. Now I know that things like /var need to be
> writable, and that the initial question as worded was rather naive.
> However, modulo writable filesy
On Wednesday, January 24, 2001, Dave Hayes wrote:
> I was asked recently if it was possible to run a FreeBSD server
> entirely off of CDROM. Now I know that things like /var need to be
> writable, and that the initial question as worded was rather naive.
> However, modulo writable filesystems whic
I was asked recently if it was possible to run a FreeBSD server
entirely off of CDROM. Now I know that things like /var need to be
writable, and that the initial question as worded was rather naive.
However, modulo writable filesystems which can be mounted separately,
has anyone ever done somethin
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