Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 09:14:04 -0800 From: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VPS FreeBSD Hosting Message-ID: <CAHu1Y72WDgtb1AtC0Qf5FPpvrZexHngz_EPEsDZh%2B5XYnKwTnQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <50B341F4.4090500@qeng-ho.org> References: <CAKLcX5xzDK0wc_DtWbBHMpyxL98b5p=0aqHuDVRxFyAZqHSDsQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAHu1Y70FBJpc=Q2RYuBuFNmoAkeq5682ucSpQX3-G_bHEOo4tw@mail.gmail.com> <50B341F4.4090500@qeng-ho.org>
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On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 2:18 AM, Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> wrote: > However, these are only on the new 3rd generation of EC2 instances, which > are heavy duty systems. For many uses micro instances are enough, but you > still have to pay the "Windows tax" on those. I don't know whether Colin is > working to change that, or if there are technical reasons why it's > impossible. I am running a t1.micro instance w/FreeBSD 8.3 i386, based on Colin's original scheme of booting from a 1GB Linux partition which grub boots a BSD root disk. It works fine, and no Windoze tax. I am happy to share an AMI which works - my current approach is to use a single 16GB drive with fairly normal partitions and GEOM ELI encrypted swap. - M
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