On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 15:26 +1200, Ian Tidy wrote: > Hi All, > > Is it possible to run MapServer (and Apache) from a CD or DVD? > > Cheers Ian
In principle, I can't see why not. You're obviously running from a windows system (or building a portable demo disk), otherwise under *nix you'd just mount a hdd partition as read only. Google is good for running Apache off a CD. There will be some need for writing to disk though; Log files, tmp directory. And it will be slow from cd. Lots of ram will probably help this a little. Can windows create and mount a ram disk read only? That might be another option if you have gobs of ram. See http://lists.maptools.org/pipermail/ms4w-users/2006-September/000631.html from the archives for a few hints. HTH, Tim Bowden
