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

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Sun Mar 11 07:22:13 UTC 2007


On Mar 10, 2007, at 11:11 PM, Dan Nelson wrote:

> 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.
>
> -- 
> 	Dan Nelson
> 	dnelson at allantgroup.com

Oh nice! Thanks (both of you) guys!
-Garrett


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