Hi, It's my birthday, so I decided to release a little rewrite of flashdist that I've been working on.
It addresses the two major shortcomings of flashdist (in light of the fact that an 8GB usb key costs $20 now) First, it installs a _complete_ OpenBSD system, that runs in read-only (or read-write if you want) mode. There's no 'distribution lists' to keep track of nor custom build environment. It's a full, almost default system with default /etc/rc (ok, a bootstrap script does have to run before /etc/rc.) Second, you can upgrade the system just by copying a few files to the flash (and keep multiple versions on the same flash.) Check out the home page and FAQ if it sounds useful to you. http://www.nmedia.net/flashrd/ http://www.nmedia.net/flashrd/flashrd-faq.html Also there are ready-made i386 and amd64 disk images to try, see http://www.nmedia.net/flashrd/images/ They run under qemu too. You can even pack up an existing, running server with flashrd (just mount it to /mnt and run ./flashrd /mnt) and create images of that for whatever purpose. (I thought the idea was cool, anyways.) Chris _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
