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Just last week one of these saved my life. I had a 1U server that could only connect through serial port. Puffy to the rescue
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These things weren't designed for "rescue" but they can certainly be used for such administrative tasks.
An OpenBSD admin I know wanted me to put "everything" on a live DVD, for those just-in-case-I-need-it moments. I think it would have to be on blue-ray, there are 6620 i386 ports, and 6570 amd64 ports. Too big for DVD. But really, that kind of thing is easiest to do on a USB drive, assuming the platforms in question can boot from USB storage. Not all can. |
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Your LiveCD is OpenBSD base + fluxbox + webbrowser. Nothing more, and nothing less.
So I know *exactly* what to expect. It also doesn't do a lot of other customization. It has a friendly non-obtrusive startup script, but that's it. No custom 1337 shell configuration, or weird aliases, or a strange fluxbox setup, or .... In short: It's sane LiveCD with no surprises. Not something that can be said of many of the FreeBSD/Linux LiveCD's I've used in the past ...
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Jggimi,
Any chance of putting maybe a LiveCD of current snapshots in particular amd64. There are so many things that are happening right now and I do not have time to test them but I would gladly give a spin to your LiveCD. |
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-current is a non-starter
First, the workload would be significant. A release(8), a build of nearly 1500 ports, and then individually provisioning each of the images, testing them, and finally packaging them, takes a great deal of time, as well as effort. To quote myself, straight from my little FAQ:
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Thirdly, it's easy enough to install any release(8) onto a USB stick, assuming your destination platform can boot USB mass storage. The entire effort it takes, if you have a running OpenBSD system: download the appropriate bsd.rd kernel, boot it, insert a stick, and run the install script. The time it takes depends upon your bandwidth to the nearest mirror. The process is described in OpenBSD FAQ 14.17.3. It is a simple portable disk drive installation, and not a read-only "live media" environment, such as I create. Lastly, I'd be happy to share my build scripts that I use to create my live media. However, the process of creating CD9660 read only live media is far more involved, and complicated, and time consuming than installing a snapshot on a stick. To get a glimpse of the underlying process of setting up a read-only version of the OS with MFS partitions for writing, there are links to two "howto" documents for creating your own live media at the bottom of my FAQ. |
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