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Bootable Business Card Distro Needs Testing

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the so-if-you're-gonna-be-sober-tonight dept.

dbarry writes "Many here have read recently about the FSF membership program. The much-coveted membership card is to be a version of the Bootable Business Card distribution. We are curently looking for testing of our pre-2.0 releases and automated builds. The 2.0 release of the LNX-BBC (and, thus, the FSF membership card) will use the powerful GAR build system to compile nearly all software on it from source code. As such it has changed greatly since the 1.618 release from 2001." Is it ok to covet the card but not the membership? :)

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  1. Not the same thing, but... by mcgroarty · · Score: 5, Insightful
    It's not quite the same thing, but the debian install ISO and the FreeBSD lite install ISOs fit neatly on the business card and mini CDRs you can buy at most computer stores.

    It's also trivial to create a spare partition (or remount a RAM disk as root), install a Debian system exactly as you like it, mount etc and var on a RAM filesystem and copy contents in with the init, and then burn the entire filesystem as an ISO, putting the kernel in place with the installer build tools.

    I have a similar setup which is capable of mounting ntfs and fat32 filesystems. This has saved me a number of times in repairing screwed up 2000 and XP machines. The NT/2K/XP console mode is a joke. Using this disc, I can get in to repair the install without having to physically yank the drive and install it in another box!

  2. Why not hurd? by afabbro · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just out of curiosity - why is the FSF card booting Linux instead of the Hurd?

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