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BSDanywhere Announces First Release

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the anywhere-that-has-an-optical-drive-that-is dept.

The call of ktulu writes "Good things come to those who wait. After eight months of work the relatively new project BSDanywhere has announced its first final release 4.3. BSDanywhere is a bootable Live-CD image based on OpenBSD. It consists of the entire OpenBSD base system (without compiler) plus enlightenment desktop, an unrepresentative collection of software, automatic hardware detection and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices as well as other peripherals. Give it a spin."

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  1. Fun, but not installable from this CD by gardyloo · · Score: 3, Informative

    Many live CD systems now have taken to being installable from those same CDs. According to the release announcement, one still has to acquire an OpenBSD release set to install to hdd. Too bad.

    1. Re:Fun, but not installable from this CD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      It's supposed to encourage users to purchase the real set from the project.

  2. Re:no compiler? by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 2, Informative

    Because CDs can only hold what -- 700 MB? Compilers take space. The purpose of the LiveCD is attract new users into the fold, not to preach to the choir.

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  3. Re:no compiler? by Piranhaa · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's not a big deal. You can simply extract comp43.tgz from any OpenBSD mirror.. Just for the record, it's 75MB gzip COMPRESSED. But ya, why would you need a compiler for a bootable CD?

    Found here: http://sunsite.ualberta.ca/pub/OpenBSD/4.3/i386/comp43.tgz

  4. Re:no compiler? by bhima · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's just a rescue CD anyway...

    I am trying think of a time I needed a compiler on a box I was using a rescue CD on and I'm pretty sure I've forced the experience from my memory. I have a pretty low tolerance for that sort of thing anyway. So usually I just go in grab the data and config files, then reinstall current. But I haven't done that recently either. Knock on wood...

    Also I am not sure of the utility of having an "unrepresentative collection of software" on a rescue CD. I guess this must be significant to someone...

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  5. Re:no compiler? by Piranhaa · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sorry, you are mistaken:
    http://sunsite.ualberta.ca/pub/OpenBSD/4.3/i386/install43.iso (203M)

    They've had a bootable CD ISO for quite some time, but would be required to do a net install. It's not a big deal since the whole download is just over 100MB. If you couldn't do that you, would need to supply another CD or USB with the install files on it. In the last 2-3 releases, the OpenBSD started created a pre-compiled bootable ISO with all the files included.