How customized can an mfsroot be?

Peter Steele psteele at maxiscale.com
Tue Apr 6 00:42:36 UTC 2010


> But ... why are you constricting yourself to use mfs_root?  I have many times ran FreeBSD completely from CDrom, which
>will give you all 700 (or a DVD, 4.3G) usable space.
>
>I'd be happy to help, if you have questions.  but please direct the questions to the mailing list.

The reason I was doing it this way was because I didn't know how to provide the CD-ROM environment a writeable file system for /tmp and /var. Obviously these have to be setup as some kind of ram based file system. What's the trick?



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