Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:38:18 -0500 (EST) From: Michael S <msherman77@yahoo.com> To: freesbie@gufi.org, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Freesbie on USB stick + qemu Message-ID: <474105.82987.qm@web88302.mail.re4.yahoo.com>
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Good day all, Just recently I discovered a new (for me) way of using Freesbie and I wanted to share it with you. A few months ago the motherboard on my FreeBSD machine gave up, and I had no way of running Unix anymore (aside from my ancient Toshiba that runs OpenBSD). I’ve always liked Freesbie, but using it as a LiveCD and rebooting between it and XP is daunting. Googling for “linux usb” brought me to this site http://www.pendrivelinux.com/ . I tried most of the Linux distros they have on that site, however for some reason or another I was not satisfied, either it didn’t have gcc (damn small) or couldn’t connect to the internet (ubuntu). Then I remembered Freesbie and decided to give it a try, running it from a usb stick using Qemu. I followed the instructions for Ubuntu http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2008/01/11/run-ubuntu-710-from-windows/ And the only thing that I had to do was to replace the Ubuntu ISO image with the one of Freesbie. It feels pretty snappy with Kqemu acceleration driver installed. I can even store stuff on the stick; after running the mountdisks script, an ext2fs partition is mounted and I was able to save files on it and they were there the next time I started Freesbie. I am able to connect to the network. The only issue that I have is when running X (startx), the window is tiny (800 X 600 pixels I believe), but it’s not a big deal. Hope someone finds it interesting, Michael Michael Sherman http://msherman77.blogspot.com/
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