Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 13:19:05 -0700 (MST) From: George Wood <gwood+freesbie@woodsite.net> To: Free System Burned In Economy <freesbie@gufi.org> Cc: freebsd-developers@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, varie@gufi.org, freebsd-small@freesbsd.org Subject: FreeSBIE DVD with KDE,Gnome,Java,OpenOffice.org et al? Message-ID: <20070211124319.D45088-100000@celery.georgewood.net>
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Ok, I know this will sound like I'm an ungrateful wretch. I love FreeSBIE, but I would like more than will fit on a CD. Please don't be offended, I love what you've done and this is not meant as criticism. I know that deciding what to put into a CD is tough, and everybody probably has something they would like added, but a CD can only hold so much. So how hard is it to make a bootable DVD? What's the simplest way to add packages to the 2.0.1 iso, and make a dvd-bootable iso? 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. I hope this doesn't rankle anyone, I'd just like to know how to do it, if possible. I would be happy to try to build one and to document my steps, but I need some pointers to get started. If licensing/distribution is a problem with some of my suggested software additions (e.g. Java and things that depend on it) perhaps I could create a buildset and/or script that people could use to roll their own. (My understanding of the Sun Java license is that it changed recently and may now allow a distribution including it, but I'm certainly no expert on this). To this end, I added a section to the wiki to stimulate discussion. I have appended it below. Thanks for all your hard work in getting us to 2.0.1; I really appreciate it. George ----------- new wiki page (as viewed using lynx) ---------- #start contents Recent Changes Current Namespace Plain HTML Wiki Markup [[software_for_bootable_dvd]] FreeSBIEWiki Edit this page Old revisions Recent changes ____________________ Search Trace: =BB start =BB software_for_bootable_dvd "Please sir, may I have some more?". Software for bootable DVD Yes, the CD is full, but I would like a bootable FreeSBIE DVD with: Java Diablo or some other jdbc 1.4.2 or 1.5 (or are there still unsuperable license issues, even now that Sun has changed the licensing and the FreeBSD foundation distributes Diablo. OpenOffice.org Wasn't this on the 1.1 cd? Is this also a victim of Java licensing? KDE and or Gnome I'm guessing that they were just too big for the CD More multimedia stuff I have a Knoppix DVD with all this and more, but of course that's not FreeBSD; I think Ubuntu gets most of this on their CD (with separate distributions including Gnome (Ubuntu) and KDE (Kubuntu). software_for_bootable_dvd.txt =B7 Last modified: 11/02/2007 20:05 by 63.230.221.49 Edit this page Old revisions Login Index [BUTTON] Recent changes RSS feed Creative Commons License Donate Powered by PHP Valid XHTML 1.0 Valid CSS Driven by DokuWiki George D. Wood, Ph.D. gwood AT woodsite DOT net
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