EC2 Instances Future

[Don O'Neil]

Have you made any AMI's based on this method? I would love to deploy a
medium or large instance that isn't subject to the 'tax', but don't really
know where to start to build one like this. 

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[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Michael Sierchio
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 1:05 PM
To: jflowers
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: EC2 Instances Future

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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