Freesbie LiveCD

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Freesbie LiveCD

• Spiros Papageorgiou
• GRNET

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Ingredients What you need

• The freebsd system that you want to transfer on
  Freesbie LiveCD
• A CD-R burner

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Step by step

• Install freesbie
• cd /usr/ports/freesbie make make install
• Run it!
• /usr/local/share/freesbie/freesbie

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The Freesbie Menu

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• x Welcome to the FreeSBIE
  installation and configuration tool. Please x
• x select one of the options below by
  using the arrow keys or typing the x
• x first character of the option name
  you're interested in. Invoke an x
• x option with SPACE or ENTER. To
  exit, use TAB to move to Exit. x
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• x x Configure Change current startup
  configuration x x
• x x Rmdir Clean the FreeSBIE FS
  x x
• x x Mkdir Create a new FreeSBIE FS
  x x
• x x World BuildWorld - Create a new
  World x x
• x x Install InstallWorld - Install new
  World x x
• x x Kernel Build Install Kernel -
  Create Install Kernel x x
• x x Fixit PatchFiles - Copy cool
  useful files x x
• x x Packages Packages - Choose packages
  to install x x
• x x User Custom User - Install shell
  script files others x x
• x x Build Build Iso - Create .iso
  file x x
• x x EXIT Quit
  x x
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Freesbie Menu Analyzed

• freesbieroot /root/freesbie
• build install kernel
• Build installworld
• Select port packages
• Freebie exploits the installed packages. It
  doesnt rebuild them
• gt fresh, complete, unconfigured freebsd system

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Environment on Freesbie LiveCD

• Root / is read-only
• Writable directories
• Copied from freebsd system
• /etc
• /root
• Rebuild from scratch
• /var

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Configuration

• Transfer wifi enviroment
• tar-untar a bunch of files
• squid
• no-cache (out of inodes)
• move from /usr/local/squid to /var/squid
• kernel
• SCHED_4BSD option instead of SCHED_ULE
• rc.conf
• root_rw_mount"NO
• syslog
• send to remote syslog host
• sshd
• Not seeded
• Interface name changes in rc.conf

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Next step

• Configuration Menu for wifi
• Interfaces config
• Radius config
• Syslog host
• Footprint 330MB iso image
• Runs fine on 256MB RAM

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• Thank you!
• Questions?