[Glibc-bsd-devel] GNU/kFreeBSD LiveCD

[Joshua Cummings]

On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 17:02 +0200, Dale Scheetz wrote:

> 1.  I can ls, cat and pipe to more, but when I tried to look at the 
> mounted filesystems df gave the following:
> 
> df: cannot read table of mounted file system. No such file or directory

That's a known bug. You need to specify a mountpoint, eg. df -h /

> 
> The machine is a VIA mother board with 1 Gig of memory. There is a hard 
> drive available, but I don't boot from it. (I mostly run a Gnome 
> remastering of Knoppix completely in ramdisk)
> 
> Is there any way to load this BSD CD image into ram?

Huh? It is loaded in to the ram...


> I have lots more questions. Is there a web site/document source that 
> would give me a better idea of what I'm looking at and what I should 
> expect from it?
> 

There's the install guide
(http://glibc-bsd.alioth.debian.org/kfreebsd/install.html) and
everything else in kfreebsd/. 

Looks like it might be a good idea if I commit that faq I mentioned the
other day...

> 
> BTW, what does the "k" in "GNU/kFreeBSD" mean?
> 

It means the operating system uses just the kernel of FreeBSD, as
opposed to a port that might use the kernel *and* the C library,
userland etc.


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Joshua Cummings