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running OpenBSD from live CD's
I noticed jggimi used to make flavours/distros available a while ago, so is obviously a very experienced user.
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As you have seperated it on my posting, my apologies; I had not meant it to take the thread off topic.
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Having live installable media certainly helped the spread of Linux, but it also brought in a lot of MS Windows users who knew nothing about the basics of 'unix'; therefore, those that replied on the various forums were constantly going over the same topics, as Windows users expected hand holding through their problems.
This is the only problem I can see with making live media available, it will need its own support forum. The BSD communities expect you to look for solutions yourself, which I am more than happy with.
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Mine didn't. Perhaps that was due to the intended audience.
I ran a low volume mailing list but it was never used for support. Members could have posted, but none ever did. I used it for announcements. I received the occasional support request via Email. Those were low volume and most of those were helpful recommendations for improvements.* * bug discoveries |
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I helped for a bit with GhostBSD, a live installable version of FreeBSD, but the project lost its way for a while, trying to do too many versions, of what was a sound idea.
On their forum, there were a lot of newbie questions cropping up, (like how do I mount my disk), etc. Mostly from MS Windows users investigating it 'live'; they didn't want to read the FreeBSD documentation.
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I remember playing once or twice with Jggimi's live CDs but never found any real use for them. What I really found useful is now dormant Frenzy distro of FreeBSD
http://frenzy.org.ua/eng/ I would be very interested in seeing similar OpenBSD based distro possibly done by our own Jggimi @bsd-keith Your experience with GhostBSD is very interesting and sort of confirms my intuition that such projects are not too useful. In theory one would hope that lowering entry bar with things like DesktopBSD, PC-BSD, GhostBSD is a good way to get more people interested in BSDs but in practice it quickly become customer service nightmare dealing with people who have no interest in learning. PC-BSD got things in part right by focusing solely ZFS and its features. |
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Seems like live-media comes in most handy when you are stranded on a Microsoft island. Somewhere like a family function at the in-laws. Suddenly someone says the dreaded, "You're a technology guy". Before long you're sitting in front of a computer that looks like its owned by a search bar installing addict. You could wait the eight minutes it takes for the browser to express signs of activity. I've been in that chair, thinking about how earlier in the day I had thought there was no way I'd need to bother bringing that live-memstick.
Sometimes I just say that I'm really not a experienced Windows user. |
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There's FuguIta for a live OpenBSD disk, latest release 3/21/15:
http://fuguita.org/?FuguIta Been a while since I've tried it, however. |
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running FreeBSD from live CD's
FuguIta is a bit spartan - IceWM, Rox filer, mplayer, w3m, emacs(!!!), & some other curses programs.
Also, being a liveCD, you can't add anything to it, as its read only. Not sure that I would recommend it to anyone wanting to try OpenBSD. Edit: I did use FreeSBIE at one time, a few years back, that was a liveCD installable to disk, using FreeBSD. I have also looked at Jibbed, which is NetBSD 6.0.
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Yes, FreeSBIE 1.1 was on my hard drive for about a year, before I went over to lightweight Linux distros.
Not sure if 2.0 was/is installable, (maybe a command line installer ?).
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This thread discussing FreeBSD live CD's has been split from its parent:
http://daemonforums.org/showthread.p...4271#post54271 ...which not only was discussing OpenBSD live CD's, but was itself a split from the hardware configuration thread also in the OpenBSD subforae: http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=1880 Please honor this site's attempt at making searching the archives simpler. Threads should have one topic as established by the initial thread post. Side discussions are encouraged, but please start new threads if the direction you want to go differs from that of the initial post. |
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I'm sorry, but this thread was split out of the laptop thread as I had inadvertantly created interest in the subject of live cd's, whilst at that time it was discussion of an OpenBSD liveCD, there was no indication that that should be the only CD to be discussed.
I appreciate that this is your site, but if we can not discuss how other BSD created & used their systems, we will not be able to discuss what is needed in a live OpenBSD CD, should anyone decide to give it a go.
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