Quoth Joe on Thu, Jan 02, 2003:
> I've been trying to get FreeBSD to run off a cdrom. Why,
> well longs story, the shot version is it needs to be able to be
> turned off and on like a lite switch. (I understand the on part
> will take longer, but the off is just hit the button).
CD-ROM is not what I would call a reliable media. May I suggest
booting from the network (PXE) or booting from a hard disk and
mounting the partitions read-only?
If you choose read-only hard disk, you may wish to load an MFS
root from /boot/loader.rc, or use read-only UFS root filesystem
and an MFS partition for directories that must be writable at
run-time.
Vadik.
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cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as
real life.
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