Read-only, diskless boot

2008-03-09 Thread Jay L. T. Cornwall
Hi, I am trying to install FreeBSD onto a CompactFlash card for an ALIX system. This guide precisely documents my goals: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/solid-state/ro-fs.html Unfortunately, it has not been updated for FreeBSD 7. Crucial files such as /etc/rc.diskless2 have

Re: Read-only, diskless boot

2008-03-09 Thread Jay L. T. Cornwall
Jay L. T. Cornwall wrote: All I need is: * / partition to work in read-only mode. * Volatile directories such as /root, /var and /tmp to be populated into a memory filesystem on boot. OK, this turned out to be easier after I spent some time reading through the /etc/rc.initdiskless