December 10, 2004
FreeSBIE
I'm pretty sure I've mentioned this before, but here's a distro for FreeBSD that you just burn on a CD, boot from it, and then just run it without installing it. I've downloaded the latest version (1.1, based on FreeBSD 5.3), and I'm going to try it on my problem system to see if it works any better. FreeSBIE - Free System Burned In Economydel.icio.us | Digg it | Furl | Yahoo MyWeb | Create Social Bookmark Links
Posted by jdarnold at 10:28 AM | TrackBack
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Track with co.mments I have tried freesbie 1.? on my IBM laptop. It works flawlessly. I think freesbie is cool as both a system repair tool and can ever be used as a sshd server! Me and my friends did it so I know it can be done. Well I hope everyone messes with this type of system, and sees the positive implications in using such a distro. If anybody wants to know how I got the sshd daemon to work let me know ;).
Chip Jones...
As you can see from a later comment (search my site for Freesbie), I did get it to mostly work on my problem machine, with a little tweaking. But I haven't had a chance to play with it much.
Posted by: Jonathan Arnold on February 13, 2005 09:52 PMYes. I am interrested in knowing how to modify a Freesbie ISO image (for example the distributed Freesbie 2.0 image) the easiest way (perhaps without too much updating of
source trees and other things that may easily fail or take
a couple of days) with
* non-interactive fast bootup procedure using DHCP,
* a replaced password field for root (as extracted
from another host by cut and past from a vipw session),
* a custom configuration file for sshd
(/etc/ssh/sshd_config) and
* the sshd program installed and configured to start when
the modified Freesbie is booting.
I guess that most other functionality (dd, newfs, mount,
tar, ...) that may be needed to make a harddisk
sliced and partitioned, boot sectors written partition
content cloned from gzipped archives, and so on, are
already in the distributed Freesbie disks.
I want, after initially, once, have configured a boot
order with the CDROM prior to the harddisk, to be able
to install server software including FreeBSD using only
the CDROM drive, restart/reset button[s], a DHCP server,
knowledge about the IP address given away by the DHCP
server and another computer with an SSH client, but
without video monitor and/or keyboard connected to the
target system.
The custom version of the sshd_config file will permit
root login and disable use of DNS ("UseDNS no") for
identification of the calling clients domain name (to
avoid timeouts and delays).
If needed, to get space on the CD for the sshd program,
I can think of removing something. For example an X11
server or maybe a lot of software to even drastically
reduce the size of the ISO image (and the burning time).
Thanks in advance !
/Harley
I forgot to write (in the comments window) the email address.
It is:
z.hans.d@home.se
Best regards !
/Harley
I haven't played with FreesBIE that much. There are a few programs that will "pull apart" an ISO and let you change files on it. Check out the Ultimate Boot CD web site for more info - http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ . And, I would imagine, the source for generating the FreesBIE cd should be around somewhere.
