EC2 Instances Future

[Michael Sierchio]

I still follow Colin's original pattern of using a minimal "Linux"
grub boot EBS device (1GB), ext2fs, with the root partition being on
another  (ufs2) EBS device.  This works very well, with a couple of
caveats -

- Install e2fsprogs (pkg or port) - you will need it, on occasion when
modifying the boot device (after mounting rw).

- Kernel upgrades are tricky, so be careful

- Edit /etc/freebsd-update.conf intelligently to prevent unintended consequences

Apart from that, I have been running i386 and amd64 instances this
way, both 8.3 and 9.1, without difficulty (apart from some Xen clock
weirdness in 8.3).

No Windoze Tax. ;-)

- M


On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:05 AM, jflowers <jflowers at ezo.net> wrote:
> Is there anything likely to be available in the future (3 months to a year) to
> avoid the Windows tax on FreeBSD instances for the smaller (t1.micro,
> m1.small, m1.medium) types?  I understand the problem but don't find anything
> much online about a possible solution.  Probably because I don't understand as
> much as I think.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Jim Flowers <jflowers at ezo.net>
>
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