Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 09:26:23 -0200 From: Patrick Tracanelli <eksffa@freebsdbrasil.com.br> To: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> Cc: FreeBSD-Advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: www.knoppix.net and maybe one day "FreeBSDCDR?" Message-ID: <3FE18EDF.2080802@freebsdbrasil.com.br> In-Reply-To: <20031217222838.E32991@rocket.alienwebshop.com> References: <20031217222838.E32991@rocket.alienwebshop.com>
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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? 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!"
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