From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 21 08:41:39 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA478106566C; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 08:41:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@reifenberger.com) Received: from mail-out.m-online.net (mail-out.m-online.net [212.18.0.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A41938FC14; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 08:41:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2EFF1C08E11; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:25:38 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.8.164]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD26F1C000BA; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:25:38 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.180]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.8.164]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id TXCDrMbujqvI; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:25:38 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.reifenberger.com (ppp-93-104-103-45.dynamic.mnet-online.de [93.104.103.45]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTP; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:25:37 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail.reifenberger.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2AF6B18B34; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:25:36 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.reifenberger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22F3C18B33; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:25:36 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:25:36 +0100 (CET) From: Michael Reifenberger To: Nathan Whitehorn Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Cc: FreeBSD-Current Subject: bsdinstall-amd64-20110313 remarks X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 08:41:40 -0000 Hi, yesterday I tested the images listed in the subject and have the following remarks: - At least the memstick image contains an empty fstab - Does the usage of a "dangerously dedikated disklabel" give any advantage? - The usage of an UFS-Label for root mounting should be more flexible - The first dialog step should set the keyboard layout - The /etc is not writable which would greatly reduce the usefulness for the ISO image (no modified resolv.conf, sshd_config, ...) The usage of a nanobsd based base-installation would give a sufficient advanced Live-OS installation. You could take a look into src/tools/tools/nanobsd/rescue where I tried to address most of the issues above primary for rescuing GPT/ZFS installations (with still hardcoded keyboard though). With two nanobsd slices on one memstick you can actually produce combined i386/and64 Live-OS memsticks... I get both on a 2GiB memstick (Without packages). What do you think? Bye/2 --- Michael Reifenberger Michael@Reifenberger.com http://www.Reifenberger.com