Tools for FreeBSD development

Kevin Sanders newroswell at gmail.com
Sat Dec 2 20:05:17 PST 2006


On 12/2/06, Alexander Kabaev <kabaev at gmail.com> wrote:
> I personally think that having a dedicated box in disk-less
> configuration is the best option out there. The ability to quickly go
> through series of hands/reboots without any associated fsck runs and
> without the risk of terminally damaging any local FS is priceless. If
> qemu can be tricked into disk-less booting, it should be just as good
> though.
>
> --
> Alexander Kabaev

Alexander, when you say disk-less configuration, are you referring to
booting from a network image/server?  That's an interesting idea.  I'm
fairly new to FreeBSD development also, and prefer the speed of a
dedicated box, but recently suffered my first corrupted beyond repair
system.

Kevin


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