From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 18 13:38:19 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9288C16A417 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:38:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from msherman77@yahoo.com) Received: from web88302.mail.re4.yahoo.com (web88302.mail.re4.yahoo.com [216.39.53.225]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 27C9C13C448 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:38:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from msherman77@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 83996 invoked by uid 60001); 18 Jan 2008 13:38:18 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=lCzVgKvo2GUpKNM4JAIA8VIkad37RLr7gh04CHloeoZqW7dJiNIP2ISjV8CWp8Pfxs0sBb4eBQqJNxR87zOagSaCf/vOPIu05YSR26vnr6GYHznAtwpulAMEXkdxUp9Ckg2n2b3WkPju6lz+QrabfBrmitHIZw/kdKhg4etu8A0=; X-YMail-OSG: iwgmHHIVM1nv5LgzsCY4_BOtSWdjiv8FRlUnV1Ie40q8gy7isSMO2_CA8tXm7TIrk_4P3unbntqUG.rda5gM6MYxUfpXBP6jbcpwINYnbSHlxLVBd64fMXr_y_f5xypZSpV76qlIuJ5Dsw-- Received: from [204.253.245.126] by web88302.mail.re4.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:38:18 EST Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:38:18 -0500 (EST) From: Michael S To: freesbie@gufi.org, FreeBSD Mailing List MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <474105.82987.qm@web88302.mail.re4.yahoo.com> Cc: Subject: Freesbie on USB stick + qemu X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:38:19 -0000 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/