Testers wanted: FreeSBIE 2.0.1-RC2 available

Hi all. A new ISO image is available, FreeSBIE 2.0.1-RC2. It is the
second release candidate for FreeSBIE 2.0.1, and hopefully the last
before the release. I'd like to thank all the testers who reported
bugs.
You can get it from our BitTorrent server: 
http://torrent.freesbie.org/FreeSBIE-2.0.1-RC2.iso.torrent

If I don't get any additional bug report in the next 7 days, I'll
release this image as FreeSBIE 2.0.1, so if you're interested in
FreeSBIE, please give RC2 a try.
Thanks in advance
Best Regards
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Re: Testing Freesbie 2.0.1...

Just testing; I have not gotten anything from the list since Feb 3.

I sent a question asking if the torrent for RC2 was still available --
I got a delivery receipt, but it never showed up as a message from the
list.

George D. Wood, Ph.D.
gwood <at> woodsite.net

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Re: Testing Freesbie 2.0.1...

On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 09:49:33AM -0700, George Wood wrote:
> 
> Just testing; I have not gotten anything from the list since Feb 3.

There were no messages  :D

> I sent a question asking if the torrent for RC2 was still available --

It is still available, but if you hold on for one or two days,
2.0.1-RELEASE will be available (no real differences from RC2)

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FreeSBIE 2.0.1 Available

All,

you may remember that FreeSBIE 2.0 was released on January 15th. It
turned out that it had some annoying bugs, one of which was especially
serious, as it prevents USB mice from working. This fact led us, the
FreeSBIE Staff, to develop a bugfix release, 2.0.1.

All the bugs that had been pointed out were solved and this release
has been more thoroughfully tested, to offer a better FreeSBIE
experience to our users.

FreeSBIE 2.0.1-RELEASE (codename Black Mamba) is based on FreeBSD
6.2-RELEASE, both in terms of sources and of packages. It contains
more than 450 pieces and 1.3 gigabytes of software, all in a single
CD-ROM of 672 megabytes.

The ISO image can be downloaded from FreeSBIE official mirrors, a list
of which is available at http://www.freesbie.org/mirrors.php .

MD5 checksum for the ISO image is:
MD5 (FreeSBIE-2.0.1-RELEASE.iso) = b2f680d27c21bbfaf4fb90dce090a118

BitTorrent lovers can get it from
http://torrent.freesbie.org/FreeSBIE-2.0.1-RELEASE.iso.torrent

Screenshots are available at http://www.freesbie.org/screenshots.html
(look for 2.0 screenshots, as nothing important has been changed since
2.0-RELEASE)

Release Notes, Manual and FAQ can be found at

FreeSBIE DVD with KDE,Gnome,Java,OpenOffice.org et al?

Ok, I know this will sound like I'm an ungrateful wretch.

I love FreeSBIE, but I would like more than will fit on a CD.

Please don't be offended, I love what you've done and this is not
meant as criticism.  I know that deciding what to put into a CD is
tough, and everybody probably has something they would like added, but
a CD can only hold so much.

So how hard is it to make a bootable DVD?  What's the simplest way to
add packages to the 2.0.1 iso, and make a dvd-bootable iso?

I haven't seen any discussion of this on the FreeSBIE wiki or mailing
list.  It must be possible, since I have a bootable Knoppix DVD; but
of course, that isn't FreeSBIE.

I hope this doesn't rankle anyone, I'd just like to know how to do it,
if possible.

I would be happy to try to build one and to document my steps, but I
need some pointers to get started.  If licensing/distribution is a
problem with some of my suggested software additions (e.g. Java and
things that depend on it) perhaps I could create a buildset and/or
script that people could use to roll their own.  (My understanding of
the Sun Java license is that it changed recently and may now allow a
distribution including it, but I'm certainly no expert on this).

To this end, I added a section to the wiki to stimulate discussion. I
have appended it below.

Re: FreeSBIE DVD with KDE,Gnome,Java,OpenOffice.org et al?

George Wood <gwood+freesbie <at> woodsite.net> wrote:
 > [...]

George, you crossposted to _way_ too many lists.  I stripped
the Reply-To down to just -hackers and the freesbie list.

 > So how hard is it to make a bootable DVD?

It's easy, I'm doing it for years.  I'm creating the FreeBSD
DVDs for Lehmanns Bookshop in German; here's the latest
edition:  http://www.lob.de/cgi-bin/out?isbn=3865411886
(sorry, that page is in German).  It contains exactly 13,463
packages.

However, it's not a FreeBSIE DVD, but a standard FreeBSD DVD
that contains the installation sets (via sysinstall) and the
"Fixit" live FS.

For quite a long time I had the plan to create a combined
DVD that contains _both_ a bootable FreeSBIE and a standard
FreeBSD installation + fixit.  That wasn't possible until
recently.  However, I implemented some new features that
enable init(8) to perform a chroot operation on the root FS
which was committed to -current (init.c 1.63).  Right now
I'm implementing a similar feature for sysinstall in P4.

On my privat machine I have backported the init(8) patch
to RELENG_6 and have made such a combined ISO image.  From
the same ISO image you can boot into either FreeSBIE or
sysinstall.

Re: FreeSBIE DVD with KDE,Gnome,Java,OpenOffice.org et al?

On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 09:12:52AM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> George Wood <gwood+freesbie <at> woodsite.net> wrote:
>  > [...]
> 
>  > So how hard is it to make a bootable DVD?
> 
> It's easy, I'm doing it for years.

George, read http://wiki.freesbie.org/freesbie2#usage
and http://wiki.freesbie.org/freesbie2-arch .

This should be more than enough, IMHO.

Let us know.

Good luck
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BTX halted

I have a FreeSBIE image on USB ``thumb drive''.
It was created using ``make flash''.
This work fine (thanks!) on some systems, but on others,
The loader dies.  I understand this to be a
problem with src/sys/boot/i386/btx (real mode vs. vm86 mode)
and the suggested workaround is to use GRUB.

Has anyone come up with a cook-book way to do this?

Thanks in advance,
doug

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Excellent Upgrade

Hi all,

 

I am very new (about 48 hrs old!), user to FreeSBIE.

 

From what I can see, it can do everything I need it to.

 

The first ting i need it for is to help me install a new server, and move some old server data to it,

 

Migrate 2 servers to newly staged machines.

 

Let me know if you think this will work:

 

(The following is a post that was sent to the FreeBSD Users list, but was never responded to):

 

Senario:

 

I have 7 Servers, but this discussion only involves two older ones (to be upgraded), 1 new one (to be deployed), and 1 excellent one (that I want to clone).

 

1 old one had FreeBSD 4.7

1 old one has FreeBSD 4.10

1 brand new one has nothing.

1 Excellent machine has 6.2 RELEASE, and is in production.

 

All of my servers use the same filesystems structures (/ /usr /var /home and /mnt (for the netowrk shares)).

 

All servers are in the same location,

All are connected to a WAN (via ethernet),

All are connected to a VLAN (via ethernet).

 

Another machine connected the same as above has a NFS share with lots of room.

 

Steps:

 

1. Backup ALL data and put in a safe location

2. Make complete file dumps of all filesystems on the machine that is to be cloned,

3. Using the live CD, create the needed file systems on the 'Blank' machine,

4. Connect the "BLANK" machine to the NFS machine  IS THIS POSSIBLE USING THE LIVE CD?

5. restore the clone dumps to the "BLANK" machine,

6. Remove all previous machine and user specific config data from the newly loaded "BLANK" machine,

7 Make a new complete set of file dumps and save to the NFS machine, (skip to step 9 for the old machines).

8. Configure and use the blank machine.

DONE

 

(the rest below would only apply to the two OLD machines being upgraded),

 

9. Using the live CD, redo the drive repartition and disklabel newfs etc, to get pristine drives,

10. connect OLD machine to NFS.

10. Using the dumps made in step 8, load the new OS,

11. Using the backed up data from step 1, reload the /home, redo rc.conf, and a bunch of other user type data...

12. Test and fix the minor forget me nots ....

(DONE)

 

 

repeat steps 9-12 for other old machine.

 

From what I can see, some of my virtual passwd files will still work (from 4.7 + 4.10 TO 6.2 COMMENTS?

From what I can see, the master.passwd $!$ passwords should work from 4.7 + 4.10 to 6.2 COMMENTS?

The old style mysql passwords should work as long as I am using the -OLD-PASSWORD option. ( I can redo the passwords if I have to anyways.

 

Any comments from users who have used FreeSBIE would be greatly appreciated.

 

-Grant

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[CVS Update of freesbie2 - M:1 A:0 R:0]

Log Message:
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Bump copyright year

Modified Files:
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    freesbie2:
        COPYING
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