Warm Greetings To [email protected],
Almost exactly one (1) year ago today, this same topic -- DragonFlyBSD
on ISO -- was discussed on [email protected]
Please refer to my earlier message:
Subject: Re: Booting problem
Date: August 18, 2015
Here is a paste of the complete text of that message:
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I agree with Stephen Walker and Gennady Proskurin,
Please don't drop generation of DragonFlyBSD ISO images.
I am using DragonFlyBSD as a KVM guest os on Elastic Hosts (EH)
www.elastichosts.com. EH supports custom os install for KVM by means of
ISO
image.
Steve
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Steve Petrie, P.Eng.
ITS-ETO Consortium
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
(905) 847-3253
[email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Welker" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2015 3:13 AM
Subject: Re: Booting problem
Hi,
Please don’t retire ISO generation.
I only (clean) install production distributions from CD (ISO).
On 15 Aug 2015, at 1:14 am, Matthew Dillon <[email protected]>
wrote:
It might be time to retire the ISO generation entirely.
-Matt
On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Gavin Reade <[email protected]>
wrote:
I could not get the iso to work and thinking it was the cheap CDs I
bought, consigned it to the beer mat pile. Tried the USB image and it
worked perfectly.
greadey
On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 8:43 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
again: The DragonFly-x86_64-LATEST-ISO.iso won't boot !!!
But: Who cares?
Stephen Welker.
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I realize that the more "hardcore" DragonFlyBSD community members are
booting DragonFlyBSD straight on to bare metal servers. In this case, a
USB memory stick is no doubt very fast and convenient way to install /
boot the OS.
However, as I have argued in more than one posting to this forum, the
DragonFlyBSD OS has great potential to make inroads as a great OS for
use under QEMU / KVM virtualization. The economics of QEMU / KVM are
compelling, as this virtualization standard has brought about a
quasi-commodifed highly competitive VPS market, to the great economic
advantage of website builders.
In my case, I cannot justify the cost of a dedicated server machine. So
if I cannot use DragonFlyBSD on a QEMU / KVM VPS, then I cannot use
DragonFlyBSD.
Recently the DragonFlyBSD team put considerable effort into helping one
DragonFlyBSD user, Stefan Unterweger [email protected], to
get his DragonFlyBSD application working under QEMU / KVM
virtualization. I have been very encouraged to see this broad-minded
attitude among DragonFlyBSD developers, who have helped Stefan by
working quickly to fix problems with DragonFlyBSD (e.g. virtio support).
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I just now checked the www.elastichosts.com (EH) website, and it appears
that for EH VPS offerings, there is still only one way to install a
custom guest OS under an EH VPS, and that is means of ISO image.
So once again, here is a plea from a QEMU / KVM user who wants to use
the fantastically amazing DragonFlyBSD OS (and its kick-ass Hammer
filesystem) under QEMU / KVM virtualization at EH. But if DragonFlyBSD
developers drop production of ISO-formatted releases, they will just be
adding another barrier holding back potential market growth for
DragonFlyBSD.
Best Regards,
Steve
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Steve Petrie, P.Eng.
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
(905) 847-3253
[email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: Jasse Jansson
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2016 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: iso file size after decompression, overburning
Is it time to scrap the relics that's called games ???
Is the floppy drive related stuff still needed ???
On 2016-08-19 02:19, Matthew Dillon wrote:
Its getting harder and harder to fit a reasonable base dist onto a CD.
I really recommend using the USB disk image instead of trying to burn
an ISO.
-Matt
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 2:09 PM, Antonio Olivares
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Dear DragonflyBSD users,
In previous versions of dfly, the size of iso was <=2 702/703 MB
and
it was okay to burn on a cd.
version 4.4.3 went about 715MB and I used overburn option in
cdrecord.
-rw-r--r-- 1 olivares users 243626574 Aug 1 13:46
dfly-x86_64-4.6.0_REL.iso.bz2
after decompresion:
-rw-r--r-- 1 olivares users 750368768 Aug 1 13:46
dfly-x86_64-4.6.0_REL.iso
which is about 716 according to k3b. Do you recommend me burning
a
DVD instead of using overburning? Do I need to worry about files
missing if I use overburn with a cd?
Thanks in advance,
Best Regards,
Antonio
