On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Brandon D. Valentine wrote:

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> Then mounting the CD as the root filesystem is not the way to go.  I
> would recommend creating a bootable CDROM that does nothing but write
> out a disk image to your hard drive.  Then the box can be a fully
> functional NetBSD machine with a r/w root filesystem.  Then if the box
> gets rooted, you simply pop the CD in, and flip the switch and your
> drive will get rewritten.

Why not a CD?  Bad idea, or just that the number of things to change are
too great?

-Jon
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