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Date:      Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:25:36 +0100 (CET)
From:      Michael Reifenberger <mike@reifenberger.com>
To:        Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Current <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   bsdinstall-amd64-20110313 remarks
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1103210906001.48840@gw.reifenberger.com>

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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




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