On Sun, 22.08.2010 at 20:50:29 +0200, Ed Schouten wrote:
I think I already mentioned it on some of the lists, but I've spent some
time creating a better FreeBSD live CD (or at least I tried to).
Basically the CD is just a stock FreeBSD installation (base + manpages +
kernel) with a small
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:47:39 +0200
Ed Schouten e...@80386.nl wrote:
Yes, it's compressed with xz(1). Just run unxz filename to
decompress it. It should be part of the latest FreeBSD releases. If
not, be sure to install /usr/ports/archivers/xz.
You can also uncompress it using 7-zip
Hello Mubeesh,
* Mubeesh ali mubeeshal...@gmail.com wrote:
Please excuse for my question: Is this a compressed version or all we need
to do is to rename it to *.iso ?
after renaming it did not boot in vmware .
Yes, it's compressed with xz(1). Just run unxz filename to decompress
it. It
Hi Ed,
Please excuse for my question: Is this a compressed version or all we need
to do is to rename it to *.iso ?
after renaming it did not boot in vmware .
thanks,
Mubeesh
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Ed Schouten e...@80386.nl wrote:
Hi all,
Per Lars's request I've uploaded
* Lars Engels lars.eng...@0x20.net wrote:
could you please upload the resulting ISO so that people who don't
want to create it themselves can test your CD?
Prrr... I have a horrible internet connection and the resulting ISO is
about 600 MB big. I'll see what I can do.
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Ed Schouten
Quoting Ed Schouten e...@80386.nl:
Hello all,
A couple of major releases ago, we had a FreeBSD disc1.iso which also
included the livefs. Nowadays the livefs comes on a separate disc. This
livefs disc has a couple of issues in my opinion:
- The livefs disc does not feature any installsets,
Hi all,
Per Lars's request I've uploaded an ISO of the FreeBSD live CD for
amd64:
URL:http://people.freebsd.org/~ed/FreeBSD-9.0-CURRENT-201008-amd64-ed.iso.xz
Size: 422452056 bytes (403 MB)
SHA256: e0b7ac8eac713ecd5ccdbf107c80563260e6000b27838b003ca11a42ae6ae700
Have fun!
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Ed
From: Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com
I have, for longer than I can count, create my own livecds because the media
that's produced have a shortcoming for some reason or other.
I automated my own build from sources (not .iso) of combined install
+ live CDROMs, a frighteningly long time ago:
My top
Hello all,
A couple of major releases ago, we had a FreeBSD disc1.iso which also
included the livefs. Nowadays the livefs comes on a separate disc. This
livefs disc has a couple of issues in my opinion:
- The livefs disc does not feature any installsets, which means if your
system has 1 CD-ROM
On 08/22/2010 11:50, Ed Schouten wrote:
2. Would a CD like this be a good addition to the provided install
media? Does it actually solve shortcomings of the existing media?
Yes. I'd also like to add that I've always wanted to see dd added to the
livefs. I have in the past not-infrequently
* Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote:
Your CDs won't reach as many people as possible, I fear. I fear because I
(for example) have no amd64 systems and just by the name of the snapshot cd
image i need to have to use your script, I won't be able to use the final
product.
Well, the script makes
1. Be sure to give the CD a try and share your experiences. Does it
work? Does it crash? Is it usable for you? If not, why not?
2. Would a CD like this be a good addition to the provided install
media? Does it actually solve shortcomings of the existing media?
If people think it's a
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 11:59:51AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
On 08/22/2010 11:50, Ed Schouten wrote:
2. Would a CD like this be a good addition to the provided install
media? Does it actually solve shortcomings of the existing media?
Yes. I'd also like to add that I've always wanted to
On 08/22/2010 14:52, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
dd(1) is already in our livefs, actually you have everything from
/rescue.
That's good news, guess it's been longer than I thought since I needed
to do this. :)
Doug
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