Subject: NetBSD LiveKey 0.1
To: None <netbsd-users@NetBSD.org>
From: iMil <imil@home.imil.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/13/2006 14:39:05
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Hi crowd,
as i already told here a couple of days ago, i've been working on a funny
project aiming to run NetBSD from an USB stick without having to change
its original FS (read VFAT), using mount_msdos(8), vnd(4) and
vndcompress(1).
The system is now usable i think, and maybe some of you can be insterested
in it. It runs NetBSD 3.0.0_STABLE and is composed of full base + xbase,
misc and helvetica fonts. All fits in about 60 megs.
I made it rather configurable so you can make the system install
packages you want at startup just by copying standard NetBSD packages to
the livekey/pkg directory in the key. Root's home directory is also
located in the key so you can tweak your dotfiles a convenient way.
I wrote a quick documentation so anyone can reproduce this easily, all the
scripts i made and used are online.
If you want to give it a try, the project homepage is
http://imil.net/wp/netbsd-livekey/ and contains -i think- all needed
information for you to test it.
Hope you'll like it :)
regards
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