I have constructed several AMIs. If I get a sense for which flavor of instance/OS combos are of interest, I can roll a few and make them available.
- M On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Don O'Neil <[email protected]> wrote: > Have you made any AMI's based on this method? I would love to deploy a > medium or large instance that isn't subject to the 'tax', but don't really > know where to start to build one like this. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Sierchio > Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 1:05 PM > To: jflowers > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: EC2 Instances Future > > I still follow Colin's original pattern of using a minimal "Linux" > grub boot EBS device (1GB), ext2fs, with the root partition being on another > (ufs2) EBS device. This works very well, with a couple of caveats - > > - Install e2fsprogs (pkg or port) - you will need it, on occasion when > modifying the boot device (after mounting rw). > > - Kernel upgrades are tricky, so be careful > > - Edit /etc/freebsd-update.conf intelligently to prevent unintended > consequences > > Apart from that, I have been running i386 and amd64 instances this way, both > 8.3 and 9.1, without difficulty (apart from some Xen clock weirdness in > 8.3). > > No Windoze Tax. ;-) > > - M > > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:05 AM, jflowers <[email protected]> wrote: >> Is there anything likely to be available in the future (3 months to a >> year) to avoid the Windows tax on FreeBSD instances for the smaller >> (t1.micro, m1.small, m1.medium) types? I understand the problem but >> don't find anything much online about a possible solution. Probably >> because I don't understand as much as I think. >> >> Thanks. >> >> -- >> Jim Flowers <[email protected]> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[email protected]" > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
