Unix on CD?

[Mark Verber]

In article <8786 at sol.ARPA> ken at cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) writes:
>Hmm. Unix system binaries don't change that often. What if most of
>/bin, /usr, /lib were put on a CD? Attach one RO optical drive to your
>network of workstations. Heck, if the drives are cheap, even one per
>workstation.  A cache would speed access to the most often requested
>files. Maybe some scheme to allow bypassing distribution binaries with
>local versions.  OS upgrade would be just a matter of sending out CDs.
>
>Has this been done already? Or planned? Or too impractical yet/ever?
>
>	Ken

The optical disks are still too slow for this to be practical.  If
someone wanted to do this a good starting place would be the work done
a BRL which permitted the root file system to be on write-protected disks.


On the other hand dist. for sources would be ideal on CDs.  Something
I hope people start doing.   I believe that DEC is doing this for VMS
stuff now.

Cheers,
Mark A. Verber