From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 25 14:39:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0F6816A4CF for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 14:39:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.covadmail.net (mx05.covadmail.net [63.65.120.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DFDFD44059 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 14:39:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from strick@covad.net) Received: (covad.net 29465 invoked from network); 25 Nov 2003 22:39:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mist.nodomain) (67.101.100.135) by sun-qmail14 with SMTP; 25 Nov 2003 22:39:38 -0000 Received: from mist.nodomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mist.nodomain (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hAPMdTa5000478; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 14:39:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@mist.nodomain) Received: (from dan@localhost) by mist.nodomain (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) id hAPMdTuh000477; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 14:39:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 14:39:29 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Strick Message-Id: <200311252239.hAPMdTuh000477@mist.nodomain> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org cc: dan@mist.nodomain Subject: 10th Anniversary Live Bootable CD X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 22:39:57 -0000 Has anyone tried out the FreeBSD 10th Anniversary Live Bootable CD given out last night at the FreeBSD 10th Anniversary party in San Francisco? I was hoping it would make a convenient emergency fixit CD and be a good FreeBSD advocacy tool. I gave it a spin this morning. It spit out disconcerting warning and error messages while booting, required some manual configuration during bootstrap, was missing a lot of programs needed for system repairs (e.g. boot0cfg), required some fudging to fsck a ufs file system and pasting into an xterm using the middle mouse button didn't work. Worse, the CD is too small to use as a coaster. Has anyone had a better experience? (Note: I don't intend this as a serious complaint. After all, it was a freebie. However, I was somewhat disappointed.) Dan Strick strick@covad.com