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Date:      Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:47:39 +0200
From:      Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
To:        Mubeesh ali <mubeeshalivm@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: A simple and hopefully usable FreeBSD live CD -- now with images
Message-ID:  <20100824134739.GO64651@hoeg.nl>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=RXbiB3Y1utjvN8VBXcsDn33YHSObozVFy%2B9yY@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20100822185029.GV2978@hoeg.nl> <20100823122323.GY2978@hoeg.nl> <AANLkTi=RXbiB3Y1utjvN8VBXcsDn33YHSObozVFy%2B9yY@mail.gmail.com>

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Hello Mubeesh,

* Mubeesh ali <mubeeshalivm@gmail.com> wrote:
> Please  excuse  for my question: Is this a compressed version or all we need
> to do is to rename it to *.iso ?
>  after renaming it did not boot in vmware .

Yes, it's compressed with xz(1). Just run unxz <filename> to decompress
it. It should be part of the latest FreeBSD releases. If not, be sure to
install /usr/ports/archivers/xz.

Greetings,
-- 
 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
 WWW: http://80386.nl/

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