Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:12:52 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, gwood+freesbie@woodsite.net, freesbie@gufi.org, freebsd-developers@FreeBSD.ORG, varie@gufi.org, freebsd-small@freesbsd.org Subject: Re: FreeSBIE DVD with KDE,Gnome,Java,OpenOffice.org et al? Message-ID: <200702120812.l1C8CqDY082861@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20070211124319.D45088-100000@celery.georgewood.net>
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George Wood <gwood+freesbie@woodsite.net> wrote: > [...] George, you crossposted to _way_ too many lists. I stripped the Reply-To down to just -hackers and the freesbie list. > So how hard is it to make a bootable DVD? It's easy, I'm doing it for years. I'm creating the FreeBSD DVDs for Lehmanns Bookshop in German; here's the latest edition: http://www.lob.de/cgi-bin/out?isbn=3865411886 (sorry, that page is in German). It contains exactly 13,463 packages. However, it's not a FreeBSIE DVD, but a standard FreeBSD DVD that contains the installation sets (via sysinstall) and the "Fixit" live FS. For quite a long time I had the plan to create a combined DVD that contains _both_ a bootable FreeSBIE and a standard FreeBSD installation + fixit. That wasn't possible until recently. However, I implemented some new features that enable init(8) to perform a chroot operation on the root FS which was committed to -current (init.c 1.63). Right now I'm implementing a similar feature for sysinstall in P4. On my privat machine I have backported the init(8) patch to RELENG_6 and have made such a combined ISO image. From the same ISO image you can boot into either FreeSBIE or sysinstall. > What's the simplest way to > add packages to the 2.0.1 iso, and make a dvd-bootable iso? If you want a FreeSBIE-only DVD (no sysinstall or fixit), that's trivial. Just take the standard FreeSBIE tool set, add more packages, create the ISO and write it to a DVD-R (up to 4.5 GB). You can even use a DL disk for up to 8 GB of storage. > I haven't seen any discussion of this on the FreeSBIE wiki or mailing > list. It must be possible, since I have a bootable Knoppix DVD; but > of course, that isn't FreeSBIE. Maybe you haven't seen any discussion because it's so easy. There's really no need to discuss or document it. I wonder why you haven't simply tried it. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, USt-Id: DE204219783 Any opinions expressed in this message are personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix GmbH & Co KG in any way. FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "To this day, many C programmers believe that 'strong typing' just means pounding extra hard on the keyboard." -- Peter van der Linden
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