[Glibc-bsd-devel] Re: GNU/kFreeBSD LiveCD

[Robert Millan]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 06:51:22PM +0200, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> Thank you for the link Joshua. That will definitely help.
> 
> Thanks also to Robert and Guillem for all the great answers.
> 
> After trying out GNU/kFreeBSD I ran across the FreeBSD 2.9 rescue CD:
> 1. Under 10 Meg (Total ISO image)

This rescue system contains a base tarball for installation and everything
of Priority required in our port. It can't get any smaller, sorry.

> 2. Loads completely into ramdisk

We would need to support mdconfig in GRUB to do this.

> 3. Provides Midnight Commander
> 4. F2 in mc provides a very nice introductory help

I could add mc, but then why not adding build-essential and everything you
need for doing the actual work? I had to keep a balancing between size and
usability, and concluded that most people just want the LiveCD for either:

 - Trying the system, run uname and forget about it.
 - Installing GNU/kFreeBSD in hard disk.

> 5. Seems to have all the standard 'nix commands

Same here.

> 6. Everything works

Ah well. Not everything works on our LiveCD. But if you have useful
infomation on correcting bugs (or better, patches) they're welcome.

> I could look into doing a "toram" option...

First, you need to prepare an initrd image (with udebs, i guess), then
add it to the cdrom filesystem, and finaly load it with GRUB (you'll have
to hack the initrd command in grub).

> I think I have just subscribed to the list (sent subscribe subject to 
> glibc-bsd-devel-REQUEST@lists.alioth.debian.org). I guess I'll know 
> shortly ;-)

Not sure if that works, just use the web interface.

-- 
Robert Millan

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