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List:       freebsd-hackers
Subject:    Re: Booting from NT ?
From:       Terry Lambert <tlambert () primenet ! com>
Date:       1998-09-28 21:47:44
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> > The minimal modification is an MFS /var, mounted early, and a symlink
> > from /tmp -> /var/tmp, yes.
> > 
> > Having a DEVFS (with SLICE) also helps... one less thing to deal
> > with not being R/O.
> 
> Question... what does happen if one has a R/O root filesystem,
> including /dev, without DEVFS? I'm constructing a firewall computer
> with a (switchable - a nice facility of some Seagate drives) hard
> drive for root, a second writeable drive for /var and swap, and a /tmp 
> MFS. What problems am I likely to run into with /dev? I'd really
> prefer not to have it as a symlink to /var/dev or some such...

It works.

For a bastion host, there's really no reason to have it writeable
anyway...


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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