Hi,
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 07:56:01PM -0700, Vasant Kanchan wrote:
> I have a minimal file system  currently on a ZIP disk which I can boot 
> from. I would like to move this to a CF card which I would prefer to mount 
> read only.
Look at this:
http://eurobsdcon.org/papers/souvatzis.pdf
which is what I did for a not completely different task.
> Unfortunately there are writes to /tmp /var and /root done by the apps.
> One possiblity to mout ramdisks at /tmp, /var /root.
> Another possibilty is to union mount the ramdisk on top of  root .
Ahem - I guess your device nodes(in /dev) are inaccessible. Remove them,
and run MAKEDEV after the mfs / is mounted over /root.
Regards,
        -is
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