dhclient and the LiveCD

2013-07-30 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
hello list, when using the bootonly.iso from the ftp servers... if you drop to a shell, use dhclient to obtain an ipaddress.. well you get one.. but you have no DNS, because I think dhclient can't write to /etc/resolv.conf what is the correct way to fix this? -- Sam Fourman Jr.

Re: dhclient and the LiveCD

2013-07-30 Thread aurfalien
is the correct way to fix this? Well, if its anything like the LiveCD option from there regular full iso, then you can do 2 things; issue; mkdir /tmp/etc mount_unionfs /tmp/etc /etc * this makes all things done on the fs temporary or issue; mount -rw / * renders anything you write permanent I

Re: 9.1-RC3 LiveCD missing features

2012-12-07 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 12/08/12 00:05, Tomek CEDRO wrote: On 12/07/12 23:11, Chuck Burns wrote: On 12/7/2012 3:50 PM, CeDeROM wrote: Hello I have tried to chceck for badblocks on my / but I did not find badblocks program on LiveCD and there is no option to install it. This is very useful utility, please add

* Re: chroot error: /bin/csh: No such file or directory; trying to create customized livecd/dvd

2011-12-26 Thread Devin Teske
Sent from my iPhone On Dec 23, 2011, at 8:28 PM, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Dear folks, I am trying to build a simple livecd to learn more. I have successfully run some commands found here: http://www.secure-computing.net/wiki/index.php/FreeBSD/LiveCD # cd /usr

Re: chroot error: /bin/csh: No such file or directory; trying to create customized livecd/dvd

2011-12-24 Thread Da Rock
On 12/24/11 22:57, Antonio Olivares wrote: I'll ask a stupid question, and you're more than welcome to give a stupid answer: Is /bin/csh actually _in_ your chroot? So csh should be this path: /usr/home/olivares/tmp/tmp/R/bin/csh HTH ___

Re: chroot error: /bin/csh: No such file or directory; trying to create customized livecd/dvd

2011-12-24 Thread Antonio Olivares
I'll ask a stupid question, and you're more than welcome to give a stupid answer: Is /bin/csh actually _in_ your chroot? So csh should be this path: /usr/home/olivares/tmp/tmp/R/bin/csh HTH ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: chroot error: /bin/csh: No such file or directory; trying to create customized livecd/dvd

2011-12-24 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 7:03 AM, Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: On 12/24/11 22:57, Antonio Olivares wrote: I'll ask a stupid question, and you're more than welcome to give a stupid answer: Is /bin/csh actually _in_ your chroot? So csh should be this path:

Re: chroot error: /bin/csh: No such file or directory; trying to create customized livecd/dvd

2011-12-23 Thread Da Rock
On 12/24/11 14:28, Antonio Olivares wrote: Dear folks, I am trying to build a simple livecd to learn more. I have successfully run some commands found here: http://www.secure-computing.net/wiki/index.php/FreeBSD/LiveCD # cd /usr/src # make buildworld DESTDIR=/usr/home/olivares/tmp/tmp/R

Re: Howto's, Advice, Hints/Gotchas about livecd creation in FreeBSD

2011-08-07 Thread Antonio Olivares
LiveCD from an amd64 system? What does one need to do, to achieve this successfully? I would like to clone my system onto a livecd and have the same system that can be bootable on other 64 bit machines. Thanks in Advance, Antonio P.S. I looked at other system, /usr/ports/sysutils/livecd, but again

RE: Howto's, Advice, Hints/Gotchas about livecd creation in FreeBSD

2011-07-28 Thread Devin Teske
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Antonio Olivares Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 5:02 PM To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Howto's, Advice, Hints/Gotchas about livecd creation in FreeBSD Dear folks

Howto's, Advice, Hints/Gotchas about livecd creation in FreeBSD

2011-07-27 Thread Antonio Olivares
FreeSBIE 2.0.1, ..., etc I see some pages like mfsroot, and it is small custom made for ZFS and other goodies :), I am not there yet :(, I see there are custom scripts/SDK for livecd building: http://wiki.freebsd.org/AvgLiveCD http://livecd.sourceforge.net/ other pages and Frenzy Page: http

Re: pxe LiveCD setup

2010-07-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com writes: The only complaint I have so far is the speed of download via tftp. A 236M ISO took two minutes to load, or about 2M per second. A full CD takes a long, long time. Is that typical, or maybe just the poor Ethernet on this Aspire One D250? The stock

Re: pxe LiveCD setup

2010-07-04 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 4 Jul 2010, Lowell Gilbert wrote: The stock tftpd on FreeBSD doesn't support variant block sizes (or much of anything else past RFC 1350). You'll see better performance if you go with something newer. Spent some time experimenting. tftp-hpa is faster, but setting the maximum block

Re: pxe LiveCD setup

2010-07-04 Thread Carl Chave
Linux systems with netboot can boot off http (using wget) and it's much better.  Twice as fast for the Clonezilla load, but System Rescue went from three minutes to only 18 seconds. Etherboot/gPXE is interesting also. It will boot from http. One of my grub4dos menu entries is a gPXE floppy

Re: pxe LiveCD setup

2010-07-04 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 4 Jul 2010, Carl Chave wrote: Etherboot/gPXE is interesting also. It will boot from http. One of my grub4dos menu entries is a gPXE floppy image with the generic UNDI driver though I haven't really used it much. http://www.etherboot.org/wiki/start I tried it last night, although it

Re: pxe LiveCD setup

2010-07-04 Thread Carl Chave
With grub4dos  title FreeBSD  pxe keep  chainloader --raw (pd)/images/freebsd/boot/pxeboot it loads pxeboot, but then: netboot: couldn't probe pxenet0 pxe_open: netif_open() failed ... can't load 'kernel' OK So it loads pxeboot, but then pxeboot can't use the pxenet0 device. Your

Re: pxe LiveCD setup

2010-07-04 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 5 Jul 2010, Carl Chave wrote: So it loads pxeboot, but then pxeboot can't use the pxenet0 device. Your goal in the pxeboot/nfs/livefs was to avoid having to transfer the large livefs iso? I won't be much help solving your problem above, just curious where you're going with your

pxe LiveCD setup

2010-07-03 Thread Warren Block
Is there a quick way to set up a PXE boot menu for booting into a number of ISO images? There's net/pxe, but it looks like only part of the solution. Ideally, there'd just be a minimal setup with a directory of ISO files and a built-in loader that lets the user choose which ISO to boot.

Re: pxe LiveCD setup

2010-07-03 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: Is there a quick way to set up a PXE boot menu for booting into a number of ISO images?  There's net/pxe, but it looks like only part of the solution. Ideally, there'd just be a minimal setup with a directory of ISO files

Re: pxe LiveCD setup

2010-07-03 Thread Carl Chave
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: Is there a quick way to set up a PXE boot menu for booting into a number of ISO images?  There's net/pxe, but it looks like only part of the solution. Ideally, there'd just be a minimal setup with a directory of ISO files

Re: pxe LiveCD setup

2010-07-03 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 3 Jul 2010, Carl Chave wrote: On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: Is there a quick way to set up a PXE boot menu for booting into a number of ISO images?  There's net/pxe, but it looks like only part of the solution. Ideally, there'd just be a

Re: pxe LiveCD setup

2010-07-03 Thread Carl Chave
After a very cursory setup, it works!  I took notes and will write it up in a bit. The only complaint I have so far is the speed of download via tftp.  A 236M ISO took two minutes to load, or about 2M per second.  A full CD takes a long, long time.  Is that typical, or maybe just the poor

How to create a livecd without compiling everything.

2009-04-20 Thread Peter Wang
Hi, all. I want to create a customized freebsd livecd, and i have read quite a lot guides about how to do that. but the problem is: most of these need make buildworld, make buildkernel ... I think it's hard for my notebook do that. so is there a simpler/quicker way in which i can create

Re: How to create a livecd without compiling everything.

2009-04-20 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Apr 20, 2009, at 1:23 AM, Peter Wang wrote: Hi, all. I want to create a customized freebsd livecd, and i have read quite a lot guides about how to do that. but the problem is: most of these need make buildworld, make buildkernel ... I think it's hard for my notebook do that. so

Re: How to create a livecd without compiling everything.

2009-04-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 20 April 2009 08:23:42 Peter Wang wrote: I want to create a customized freebsd livecd, and i have read quite a lot guides about how to do that. but the problem is: most of these need make buildworld, make buildkernel ... I think it's hard for my notebook do that. so

Re: How to create a livecd without compiling everything.

2009-04-20 Thread Peter Wang
Josh Paetzel j...@tcbug.org writes: On Apr 20, 2009, at 1:23 AM, Peter Wang wrote: Hi, all. I want to create a customized freebsd livecd, and i have read quite a lot guides about how to do that. but the problem is: most of these need make buildworld, make buildkernel ... I think it's hard

AMD64 -current iso laying around? or How to make a LiveCD from scratch?

2007-03-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
Just bought and built a new PC, comes with an Conroe-based Core 2 Duo, Realtek 8169 Gigabit chipset, JbMicron PATA / SATA RAID controller, and the like. Now, I can boot up the FreeBSD livecd perfectly fine, but when it comes to adding the interface the driver isn't present (although

Re: AMD64 -current iso laying around? or How to make a LiveCD from scratch?

2007-03-10 Thread Josh Carroll
So, in an effort to get my system up and running I was wondering if someone could provide me with either a link to a v7 ISO available somewhere, or directions on how to make a FreeBSD LiveCD (I have 2 other IA32 systems kicking around I can use for building stuff :)..). There are 7.0-CURRENT

Re: AMD64 -current iso laying around? or How to make a LiveCD from scratch?

2007-03-10 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 10), Garrett Cooper said: Just bought and built a new PC, comes with an Conroe-based Core 2 Duo, Realtek 8169 Gigabit chipset, JbMicron PATA / SATA RAID controller, and the like. Now, I can boot up the FreeBSD livecd perfectly fine, but when it comes to adding

Re: AMD64 -current iso laying around? or How to make a LiveCD from scratch?

2007-03-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Mar 10, 2007, at 11:11 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 10), Garrett Cooper said: Just bought and built a new PC, comes with an Conroe-based Core 2 Duo, Realtek 8169 Gigabit chipset, JbMicron PATA / SATA RAID controller, and the like. Now, I can boot up the FreeBSD livecd

Re: freebsd livecd and pentium 1

2006-07-29 Thread Igor Robul
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 10:50:40AM -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: A P1 with 32MB should be sufficient albeit painful, but I wouldn't use any large scale desktop/window managers (such as KDE/Gnome), I'd probably use one of the light weights like TWM (and ION?), or maybe a medium weight (WMaker?),

Re: freebsd livecd and pentium 1

2006-07-29 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jul 29, 2006, at 1:08 PM, Igor Robul wrote: On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 10:50:40AM -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: A P1 with 32MB should be sufficient albeit painful, but I wouldn't use any large scale desktop/window managers (such as KDE/Gnome), I'd probably use one of the light weights like TWM

freebsd livecd and pentium 1

2006-07-24 Thread jesus martinez
hello. my name is jesus and am writing to you from argentina. i am looking for a freebsd livecd. i have just downloaded fresbie, but i am not sure if is a freebsd.org or an third-party's implementation. does freebsd have a live-cd ? is so, where can i download it ? i want to change my win98

Re: freebsd livecd and pentium 1

2006-07-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, hello. my name is jesus and am writing to you from argentina. i am looking for a freebsd livecd. i have just downloaded fresbie, but i am not sure if is a freebsd.org or an third-party's implementation. From where did you download the CD? Was is from a freebsd.org location

Re: freebsd livecd and pentium 1

2006-07-24 Thread Jim Stapleton
That is pretty small. At the bare minimum level, you might be able to get it up and running, but not be able to do much of any real work on it without more memory. You didn't mention the amount of disk on the machine, but if you want to run X (needed for a Gui) then it will take more that a

freebsd custom livecd

2006-06-01 Thread voodoo
Sorry, my english is not very well i have some boxes, without HDD. i'd like to setup diskless routers, so i need to create my own livecd, with installed and configured demons(mrtg,proxy,apache and so on) what kind of scripts can do this? ___ freebsd

Re: freebsd custom livecd

2006-06-01 Thread Massimiliano Stucchi
On 010606, 17:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, my english is not very well i have some boxes, without HDD. i'd like to setup diskless routers, so i need to create my own livecd, with installed and configured demons(mrtg,proxy,apache and so on) what kind of scripts can do this? Take a look

LiveCD FreeBSD

2006-02-01 Thread Paul
. Is there a LiveCD for FreeBSD I looked at the web site for Freebsd but was unable to be for sure what is there. I perfer a LiveCD so I can first run it on my computer before I totally convert. Also when and if I convert will I lose all my desktop files? Paul

Re: LiveCD FreeBSD

2006-02-01 Thread Jacob S
a web server and it runs FreeBSD. I would like to use FreeBSD on my local computer so I can learn it more. Is there a LiveCD for FreeBSD I looked at the web site for Freebsd but was unable to be for sure what is there. You might try a google search. The following turned up two useful results

Re: LiveCD FreeBSD

2006-02-01 Thread Duane Whitty
. Then I got a web server and it runs FreeBSD. I would like to use FreeBSD on my local computer so I can learn it more. Is there a LiveCD for FreeBSD I looked at the web site for Freebsd but was unable to be for sure what is there. You might try a google search. The following turned up two

Re: LiveCD FreeBSD

2006-02-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
Paul wrote: Is there a LiveCD for FreeBSD I looked at the web site for Freebsd but was unable to be for sure what is there. Yes. http://www.freesbie.org/ Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: LiveCD FreeBSD

2006-02-01 Thread Vince Hoffman
for a new OS. That is when I came up with PCLOS. Then I got a web server and it runs FreeBSD. I would like to use FreeBSD on my local computer so I can learn it more. Is there a LiveCD for FreeBSD I looked at the web site for Freebsd but was unable to be for sure what is there. Try either http

livecd problems - won't mount root

2005-09-15 Thread Midnight Oil
Hello I'm trying to build a web server with FreeBSD 4.11 that runs off of a CD rather than a hard disk. I'm trying to make an iso using livecd 1.2.4b and the install goes well, but when I try to boot the system from the iso I get the mountroot prompt. Here is the fstab file that I

Re: livecd problems - won't mount root

2005-09-15 Thread Charles Swiger
On Sep 15, 2005, at 4:17 PM, Midnight Oil wrote: Here is the fstab file that I put in the live_root install directory prior to the iso generation: # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/ad0s1b noneswapsw 0

Re: livecd problems - won't mount root

2005-09-15 Thread Midnight Oil
to create the iso image: /usr/local/bin/mkisofs -b boot/cdboot -no-emul-boot -c boot/boot.catalog -r -l -L -V LiveCD -o /usr/LiveCD.iso . /usr/local/livecd/log - Jamie -- -Chuck The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (93% of Full) ___ freebsd

Re: LiveCD on FreeBSD 5.x

2005-07-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does LiveCD work well with FBSD 5.x? http://livecd.sourceforge.net/ The project maintainers claim they haven't tried. There's nothing particularly complicated about livecd, but it will definitely need some minor changes to handle changed paths and so

Re: LiveCD on FreeBSD 5.x

2005-07-12 Thread Jonathan Arnold
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Does LiveCD work well with FBSD 5.x? If you're looking for a Live CD of FreeBSD, check out either the LiveCD list: http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php Although it doesn't seem to show PC-BSD: http://www.pcbsd.org/ which, IIRC, is a live CD too

Re: LiveCD on FreeBSD 5.x

2005-07-12 Thread Denny White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Today Jonathan Arnold had this to say: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Does LiveCD work well with FBSD 5.x? If you're looking for a Live CD of FreeBSD, check out either the LiveCD list: http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php

LiveCD on FreeBSD 5.x

2005-07-11 Thread scuba
Hi, Does LiveCD work well with FBSD 5.x? http://livecd.sourceforge.net/ - Marcelo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

LiveCD

2004-06-21 Thread Ray Seals
Anyone had any experience with LiveCD? I'm trying to run it and I get an error about an expected then at line 298. -- Ray Seals [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: LiveCD

2004-06-21 Thread Remko Lodder
Ray Seals wrote: Anyone had any experience with LiveCD? I'm trying to run it and I get an error about an expected then at line 298. When i was at the supermarket there was a line 298, there was indeed an error, well a pretty error, a nice young lady who was in the way, not that i hated

Re: LiveCD

2004-06-21 Thread Ray Seals
, where does that error occur? when starting up? after what messages does it occur? What version are you running, when did you take it of the site etc? cd /usr/local/livecd/ Enter ./livecd.sh Enter ./livecd.sh: 298: Syntax Error: then unexpected I've tried the livecd out of ports and off

Re: LiveCD

2004-06-21 Thread Remko Lodder
No really, where does that error occur? when starting up? after what messages does it occur? What version are you running, when did you take it of the site etc? cd /usr/local/livecd/ Enter ./livecd.sh Enter ./livecd.sh: 298: Syntax Error: then unexpected I've tried the livecd out of ports and off

Re: LiveCD

2004-06-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
No really, where does that error occur? when starting up? after what messages does it occur? What version are you running, when did you take it of the site etc? cd /usr/local/livecd/ Enter ./livecd.sh Enter ./livecd.sh: 298: Syntax Error: then unexpected I've tried the livecd out