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 mounted separately,
> has anyone ever done something like this?
Well, it should be doable. I have something similar in spirt -- pxe
booted (network booted that is, if you dont know pxe) boxes that get their
entire OS from a nfs mount that is read-only. Fairly early in the boot, I
have some rc stuff that does mount_mfs for /var and /tmp so I have some
scratch space that I can write to for this specialized application.
At any rate, its not too hard to make bootable cds these days so you could
boot an image that mount_mfses critical sections and copies things in that
you need... Or you could even boot of an MD image stored on a slice on a
CD... eitehr way.
When you figure it out and get it working, make a web page giving the
step-by-step guide to how to do it... :)
Fred
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