Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:01:38 -0500 From: Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Howto's, Advice, Hints/Gotchas about livecd creation in FreeBSD Message-ID: <CAJ5UdcOxtiHHqr1ea74NzxgV3ES%2Bx%2ByqSsbHBRAeN3ytsGOpyg@mail.gmail.com>
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Dear folks, I would like to kindly ask you as the Subject Line tells it all. I believe I have done my homework, and I have tried out some competing LiveCDs from *BSD like Bsdanywhere, jibbed(NetBSD), jggimi(OpenBSD), had used RoFreeSBIE(FreeBSD based but unmaintained), Frenzy, Mahesha, old FreeSBIE 2.0.1, ..., etc I see some pages like mfsroot, and it is small custom made for ZFS and other goodies :), I am not there yet :(, I see there are custom scripts/SDK for livecd building: http://wiki.freebsd.org/AvgLiveCD http://livecd.sourceforge.net/ other pages and Frenzy Page: http://frenzy.org.ua/en/ I got standard cd based on 8.1 Release i386 and I like it, but it got too big :( What I am looking at. I would like to create a small ~200MB cd like old Frenzy with firefox and few apps to be able to copy2ram and take a FreeBSD system anywhere(like I do with some linux livecds like Slax, Porteus, PartedMagic, SystemRescueCD, Gparted, Clonezilla, etc). It would be nice to let people know that there is not just linux, I showed some students where I work that there are other OSes beside windows :) Also, I would like to create a bigCD/LiveDVD with many things(not the kitchen sink), with several apps I use for work, i.e, TeX/Latex (can be TexLive2011 or teTeX from ports), maxima, gnuplot(dep for maxima), ghostscript, ImageMagick, pdf utilities, compiler in case some apps are needed, gkrellm/conky, like XFCE, but can use FluxBox, Blackbox, other small Desktops or not use X if recommended. CD/DVD should have firefox, pf/ipfw firewall generic configuration, LibreOffice/(abiword & gnumeric)/, mplayer & mencoder, ffmpeg, vorbis-tools, lame, cdrecord/dvd+rw-tools/cdrdao, ..., etc. This like RoFreeSBIE had, but it died out unfortunately. KDE is heavier desktop[PC-BSD has this], Gnome too[There's GhostBSD]. If I can clone my current installation, I would be very happy and take my desktop everywhere I can boot it. If it is possible to put it on USB that would be also a great plus. My friends advice me to follow the advice given in http://wiki.freebsd.org/AvgLiveCD and get my feet wet. But I am not sure how to begin :( Thank you all for your generous advice/suggestions/comments. Regards, Antonio
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