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BSD on a USB thumb drive



http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=02011#0

Have you ever wanted a BSD operating system on a bootable USB pen drive? 
This is now a possibility, courtesy of the FreeSBIE project, which has 
just released a test image of "penBSD": "A test image of a minimal 
FreeSBIE, suitable for external support like USB pen or compact flash, is 
now available for download. If you want to help us testing it, you can 
download the image and script in the same directory, plug in your USB pen, 
and launch flashfreesbie.sh. Possibility of booting depends on your 
computer's BIOS. Although the uncompressed image is 64MB, it contains only 
~20MB of data. The flash script will format your device, mount it, mount 
the image in loopback and copy files from it. Therefore, I think that also 
32MB support will work. Please help us testing and give us your 
impressions." This is the full announcement. Download the image from here: 
FreeSBIE-pen.img.bz2 (43.9MB).


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DDDD   David Kramer         david at thekramers.net       http://thekramers.net
DK KD  Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really 
DKK D  embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen 
DK KD  an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a 
DDDD   lot more careful about what they say if they had.      Linus Torvalds




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