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Date:      Sat, 2 Feb 2008 21:55:39 +0100
From:      Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 7.0 on DVD
Message-ID:  <20080202205539.GH1179@hoeg.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20080201155703.GA1179@hoeg.nl>
References:  <200802011537.53078.root@solink.ru> <47A33662.6000002@rexdb.com> <20080201155703.GA1179@hoeg.nl>

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* Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl> wrote:
> Lately I need the livefs CD a lot. Unfortunately you cannot install
> FreeBSD by hand anymore, using the livefs disc, because there are no
> installsets on that disk. I don't have a lot of machines with 2 CD-ROM
> drives, which means I often have to copy the install sets from other
> machines.
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> It would be great if I had a FreeBSD disk (a DVD) which has the livefs,
> but also the base and kernel install sets.

Also sending this to the list: today I had some spare time, so I decided
to write a simple shellscript which makes me a single FreeBSD CD image
with the livefs and installsets, by omitting the packages (I don't care
about those). I've written a small article about it:

	http://g-rave.nl/unix/freebsd/bootcd/

Have fun! :-)

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 Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl>
 WWW: http://g-rave.nl/

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