! > How about read-only, as in CD-ROM, nounted about 1/2" back 
! > behind the front, to hide it?
! 
! From what I've heard CD-ROM drives and the like don't make very good
! disk drives (not only because they're often too slow).

Good point.

! Maybe in a more modern workstation with enough RAM the root filesystem
! could be copied from the CD on boot to an MFS.....
! 
! With a tuned kernel and Xserver you should be able to get a reasonably
! small working system into not too much MFS space....

Well, with memory prices nowadays, getting 512 MB to 1 gig of ram isn't that
bad anymore...

! Booting from CD does seem to be at least as widely supported 
! as booting
! from a NIC, and perhaps easier to manage too, not to mention but that
! all the machinery for building such CDs is more or less in the source
! tree already.  I've hacked about with creating a rescue CD by 
! default in
! my i386 builds, but haven't yet burned one to test it....

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