www.knoppix.net and maybe one day "FreeBSDCDR?"
Peter Leftwich
Could someone explain how to create a similar bootable CD-R of FreeBSD
that, at boot-time, would mount root to a ramdisk and run Gnome or KDE
automatically? Everything would have to use relative links and paths, eh?
This Knoppix (Debian) Linux CD is a real life-saver (although I can't
figure out how to mount the partition that has my 4.7-RELEASE root "/") and
worth checking out. Give it as a gift to a techie on your list!!!
PS: Please CC my email address if you reply, thanks.
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Patrick Tracanelli
> Hi again,
>
> Could someone explain how to create a similar bootable CD-R of FreeBSD
> that, at boot-time, would mount root to a ramdisk and run Gnome or KDE
> automatically? Everything would have to use relative links and paths, eh?
Hello Peter,
There are two projects the addresses the system-on-cd goal, essentially
a FreeBSD "Live" system CD. In fact they do not run a GUI
"automatically", mas a usual system you are supposed to log in and load
the X Server (startx or such).
The first project is the FreeBSD Live CD, available at
livecd.sourceforge.net and on Ports Collecion on
/usr/ports/sysutils/livecd. The main goal for this project was to
provide a "Live" recovery disk for daily maintenance and disaster
recovery, so the first megabytes included are all maintenance oriented
tool, in theory very similar to the second FreeBSD disk on every
release, but with a bootable and ready-to-go enviroment. The remaining
available CD space (and it is a lot of space) was used for GUI WM and
GUI applications. On the project's site you can find info about ISO
images download, including a base list of software you will find on the
CD. The most recent ISO images may be found in a number of mirror sites
(which i may mension at least one,
ftp://ftp.freebsdbrasil.com.br/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-LiveCD), it is a
4.8-STABLE based system.
The second project is FreeSBIE, the project is based on the above LiveCD
but the generation scripts were modified to address some issues that
used to exist on LiveCD before. Its site address is www.freesbie.org and
there are also ISO images available from there. It is also on FreeBSD
Ports under /usr/ports/sysutils/freesbie.
Both projects provide ISO images from a somewhere-in-time version of
FreeBSD, but the main goal on both is providing the tools to allow you
making and customizing your own live CD. They are "Tool Sets" for LiveCD
generation, and the tools (shell scripts) is only what you get from the
Ports collection.
Give both a try.
--
Atenciosamente,
Patrick Tracanelli
The FreeBSD pt_BR Documentation Project
http://www.freebsdbrasil.com.br
patrick @ freebsdbrasil.com.br
"Long live Hanin Elias, Kim Deal!"
Daniela
> Hi again,
>
> Could someone explain how to create a similar bootable CD-R of FreeBSD
> that, at boot-time, would mount root to a ramdisk and run Gnome or KDE
> automatically? Everything would have to use relative links and paths, eh?
>
> figure out how to mount the partition that has my 4.7-RELEASE root "/") and
> worth checking out. Give it as a gift to a techie on your list!!!
I'm already doing this, with a few additional features such as mounting a
ramdisk over the entire root (so everything is writable), automatic saving
and restoring of changed files, automatic XFree86 configuration, ...
Everything is done in shellscript and AFAIK it will require no source code
change at all, and it works for all versions.
I currently have no hosting for the project, so I'm doing everything alone,
but I'd really like to get other people involved as well.
Regards,
Daniela
Daniela
> On Thursday 18 December 2003 03:33, Peter Leftwich wrote:
> > Hi again,
> >
> > Could someone explain how to create a similar bootable CD-R of FreeBSD
> > that, at boot-time, would mount root to a ramdisk and run Gnome or KDE
> > automatically? Everything would have to use relative links and paths,
> > eh?
> >
> > This Knoppix (Debian) Linux CD is a real life-saver (although I can't
> > figure out how to mount the partition that has my 4.7-RELEASE root "/")
> > and worth checking out. Give it as a gift to a techie on your list!!!
>
> I'm already doing this, with a few additional features such as mounting a
> ramdisk over the entire root (so everything is writable), automatic saving
> and restoring of changed files, automatic XFree86 configuration, ...
> Everything is done in shellscript and AFAIK it will require no source code
> change at all, and it works for all versions.
I forgot to mention: it automatically searches for swap partitions or
mountable partitions to create a swapfile.
Peter Leftwich
> On Thursday 18 December 2003 03:33, Peter Leftwich wrote:
> > Hi again, Could someone explain how to create a similar bootable CD-R of FreeBSD
> > that, at boot-time, would mount root to a ramdisk and run Gnome or KDE
> > automatically? Everything would have to use relative links and paths, eh?
> >
> > This Knoppix (Debian) Linux CD is a real life-saver (although I can't
> > figure out how to mount the partition that has my 4.7-RELEASE root "/") and
> > worth checking out. Give it as a gift to a techie on your list!!!
>
> I'm already doing this, with a few additional features such as mounting a
> ramdisk over the entire root (so everything is writable), automatic saving
> and restoring of changed files, automatic XFree86 configuration, ...
Knoppix is the same but AFAIK not automatic.
> Everything is done in shellscript and AFAIK it will require no source code
> change at all, and it works for all versions.
Are you using the port "livecd" to accomplish this task?
> I currently have no hosting for the project, so I'm doing everything alone,
> but I'd really like to get other people involved as well. Regards,
> Daniela
For hosting needs, why not try www.sourceforge.net or www.sf.net ? I think
that if the BSD community comes up with a clever enough name, we (i.e.
FreeBSD?) could become an eyebrow-raising name like Lindows for example!!
*smiles*
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Peter Leftwich
President & Founder, Video2Video Services
Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA
http://Www.Video2Video.Com
Daniela
> On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Daniela wrote:
> > On Thursday 18 December 2003 03:33, Peter Leftwich wrote:
> > > Hi again, Could someone explain how to create a similar bootable CD-R
> > > of FreeBSD that, at boot-time, would mount root to a ramdisk and run
> > > Gnome or KDE automatically? Everything would have to use relative
> > > links and paths, eh?
> > >
> > > This Knoppix (Debian) Linux CD is a real life-saver (although I can't
> > > figure out how to mount the partition that has my 4.7-RELEASE root "/")
> > > and worth checking out. Give it as a gift to a techie on your list!!!
> >
> > I'm already doing this, with a few additional features such as mounting a
> > ramdisk over the entire root (so everything is writable), automatic
> > saving and restoring of changed files, automatic XFree86 configuration,
> > ...
>
> Knoppix is the same but AFAIK not automatic.
>
> > Everything is done in shellscript and AFAIK it will require no source
> > code change at all, and it works for all versions.
>
> Are you using the port "livecd" to accomplish this task?
No, only standard tools, and my shellscripts.
> > I currently have no hosting for the project, so I'm doing everything
> > alone, but I'd really like to get other people involved as well.
> > Regards, Daniela
>
> For hosting needs, why not try www.sourceforge.net or www.sf.net ? I think
> that if the BSD community comes up with a clever enough name, we (i.e.
> FreeBSD?) could become an eyebrow-raising name like Lindows for example!!
I'd rather make sure the effort goes directly into the FreeBSD project. Making
this a separate OS wouldn't really benefit the BSD community.
Julian H. Stacey
> but I'd really like to get other people involved as well.
Daniela,
What hosting do you need ? I have hosts running FreeBSD 4.x & 5.x,
& majordomo & http & ftp, & enough space on one box, & could run a
CVS server too. Mail & sources no problem, but ...
I don't have lots of gigabyte per month transfer quota, so being
an ISO repository is not viable. Universities are good bases for
storing ISO masters on FTP, one near me could do that, but I would
Not want to be pushing regular master ISO images from my servers
to a Uni. Better use a seperate flat rate DSL + home based build
engine direct to a Uni. to upload ISO s dor distribution.
Disclaimer:
I've also mastered bootable FreeBSD CDROMs for a couple of years,
not released, but there's a CDROM announce list already on
majo...@berklix.com, I can't talk about it now, except to say
subscription is available, & an announcement will be made to that
list some time. But I've no problem creating you a list too.
Mail or phone if you want, http://berklix.com/~jhs/phone/
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Daniela
> > I currently have no hosting for the project, so I'm doing everything
> > alone, but I'd really like to get other people involved as well.
>
> Daniela,
> What hosting do you need ? I have hosts running FreeBSD 4.x & 5.x,
> & majordomo & http & ftp, & enough space on one box, & could run a
> CVS server too. Mail & sources no problem, but ...
>
> I don't have lots of gigabyte per month transfer quota, so being
> an ISO repository is not viable. Universities are good bases for
> storing ISO masters on FTP, one near me could do that, but I would
> Not want to be pushing regular master ISO images from my servers
> to a Uni. Better use a seperate flat rate DSL + home based build
> engine direct to a Uni. to upload ISO s dor distribution.
Would be a great idea. I won't need much space for the shellscripts, they need
less than 1M total.
Daniela
> On Thursday 18 December 2003 03:33, Peter Leftwich wrote:
> > Hi again,
> >
> > Could someone explain how to create a similar bootable CD-R of FreeBSD
> > that, at boot-time, would mount root to a ramdisk and run Gnome or KDE
> > automatically? Everything would have to use relative links and paths,
> > eh?
> >
> > This Knoppix (Debian) Linux CD is a real life-saver (although I can't
> > figure out how to mount the partition that has my 4.7-RELEASE root "/")
> > and worth checking out. Give it as a gift to a techie on your list!!!
>
> I'm already doing this, with a few additional features such as mounting a
> ramdisk over the entire root (so everything is writable), automatic saving
> and restoring of changed files, automatic XFree86 configuration, ...
> change at all, and it works for all versions.
>
> but I'd really like to get other people involved as well.
Alright, I uploaded some stuff. It's at user.berklix.org/~dgw.