"AMD64 -current iso laying around?" or "How to make a LiveCD from scratch?"

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Mar 10), Garrett Cooper said:
> Just bought and built a new PC, comes with an Conroe-based Core 2  
> Duo, Realtek 8169 Gigabit chipset, JbMicron PATA / SATA RAID  
> controller, and the like. Now, I can boot up the FreeBSD livecd  
> perfectly fine, but when it comes to adding the interface the driver  
> isn't present (although it is available if one compiles the kernel  
> with the proper driver), and if I do install the system it fails to  
> properly detect the root devices at boot (something to do with the  
> RAID setup or numbering drives I believe).
> 
> So, in an effort to get my system up and running I was wondering if  
> someone could provide me with either a link to a v7 ISO available  
> somewhere, or directions on how to make a FreeBSD LiveCD (I have 2  
> other IA32 systems kicking around I can use for building stuff :)..).

CDs for current are available at
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/ ; pick the latest dated
subdirectory.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com