A simple and hopefully usable FreeBSD live CD -- now with images

Ed Schouten ed at 80386.nl
Tue Aug 24 13:47:41 UTC 2010


Hello Mubeesh,

* Mubeesh ali <mubeeshalivm at gmail.com> wrote:
> Please  excuse  for my question: Is this a compressed version or all we need
> to do is to rename it to *.iso ?
>  after renaming it did not boot in vmware .

Yes, it's compressed with xz(1). Just run unxz <filename> to decompress
it. It should be part of the latest FreeBSD releases. If not, be sure to
install /usr/ports/archivers/xz.

Greetings,
-- 
 Ed Schouten <ed at 80386.nl>
 WWW: http://80386.nl/
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