From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 8 10:40:02 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BA5E10656A4 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 2009 10:40:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zafiro17@gmail.com) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 565488FC1B for ; Thu, 8 Oct 2009 10:40:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEB8199F9C for ; Thu, 8 Oct 2009 06:40:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from web7.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.216]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:40:01 -0400 Received: by web7.messagingengine.com (Postfix, from userid 99) id 890E1ABD98; Thu, 8 Oct 2009 06:40:01 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1254998401.8308.1338908859@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: DPk8JvAg+J5ZQQZdj8yeZCyYuuWqFME2nh9I+UoknuMa 1254998401 From: "Randall Wood" To: "freebsdquestions" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:40:01 +0100 Subject: Live CD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: zafiro17@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:40:02 -0000 Greetings - I've got a new Netbook I'm itching to install FreeBSD on, and would prefer to avoid hassles by testing out the hardware with a LiveCD first. FreeSBIE seemed like an appropriate choice, but the website is out of commission, and what I read on the web seems to indicate the project is no longer maintained. There's the FreeBSD Live CD project, run by a Brazilian users' group, but it looks more complicated than I'd prefer. And I just discovered, through a posting on the Daemon Forums, the RoFreeSBIE project, run by some Romanians. Where to start? I'm aware of the FreeBSD integrated fixit mode, but that's not what I'm looking for. I am looking for the FreeBSD equivalent of Knoppix Linux, which will run a graphical desktop and give me an idea if FreeBSD can work with my Atom dual core processor, Intel onboard NIC and Wireless, the dinky little webcam, and so on, even hardware that I wouldn't be able to identify by name in order to search the web for info. Has anybody had good or bad experiences with any of the above methods? A search of recent posts from this mailing list turned up precious little, and the RoFreeSBIE site looks very interesting. That's probably where I would start, but like I said, I'm curious to see if anyone on this list has had experience and would like to make recommendations. Otherwise, I'll let you know how it goes!