Running MapServer from CD or DVD

[Tim Bowden]

On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 15:26 +1200, Ian Tidy wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Is it possible to run MapServer (and Apache) from a CD or DVD?
> 
> Cheers Ian 

In principle, I can't see why not.  You're obviously running from a
windows system (or building a portable demo disk), otherwise under *nix
you'd just mount a hdd partition as read only.  Google is good for
running Apache off a CD.  There will be some need for writing to disk
though; Log files, tmp directory.  And it will be slow from cd.  Lots of
ram will probably help this a little.  Can windows create and mount a
ram disk read only?  That might be another option if you have gobs of
ram.

See
http://lists.maptools.org/pipermail/ms4w-users/2006-September/000631.html from the archives for a few hints.

HTH,
Tim Bowden