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FreeBSD Based Live CDs

Posted by timothy on from the peanut-butter-chocolate dept.

Newtonian_p writes "Now the BSD world has an answer to Knoppix. The FreeSBIE project have released a live FreeBSD based system on CD. There are also plans to develop a suite of programs to be used to create a personalized disk." If it offers a painless BSD install (the way Knoppix makes it easy to install Debian to a hard drive), this should be a popular project. Reader Cronopios links to a related effort called LiveBSD which "has heavily modified FreeSBIE's scripts to allow for apache mysql and many other programs to run."

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  1. I boot mine from CF by DrSkwid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have an in-car PC that runs FreeBSD.

    It boots an EPIA 5000 from a 32Mb CF card and plays mp3s from any of the cds in the NEC 4 disk CDROM.

    I hope to add a 7" lcd to it soon and see what I can make it do next.

    Hopefully when my GPS mouse comes I can do some sort of homebrew routefinder

    My fello 9fan Matthias has done a bit of a walkthrough with scripts for making FBSD fit in under 32Mb

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  2. Re:Netcraft chimes in... by metamatic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I must admit, I laughed at the name "FreeBSD Live". I'm disappointed that the trolls couldn't come up with a wittier piece of trollery given material like that.

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