EeeBSD test on ASUS Eee PC 701 (FreeBSD from USB)

A video demonstration of FreeBSD running on an ASUS Eee PC 701 from a USB stick.

Here you can see FreeBSD booting up and running some basics like playing sounds or using the wireless card.


FreeBSD is installed on an 8G USB pendrive, I wrote a tutorial on my blog showing how to do this:
http://sonicfrequencies.wordpress.com/2009/05/16/eeebsd-setup-how-to-install-...

italian version at:
http://captainsonic.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/eeebsd-setup-installazione-freeb...


Enjoy!

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[bamdadkhan]

nice, although it would be even better to see x11.

[gr4tuitou5]

Yeah. I've got a C3 Via I had running readonly from compact flash and experimented with USB sticks for /var (because I wanted to keep the pkg database intact) and /home (for email only) but usb proved to be unreliable. With modifications such as you have described plus turning off disk intensive cron jobs I rarely see any disk activity on it. It could easily last years if it's decent enough quality compact flash. It used to be a completely readonly custom X terminal once.

[Sonixant]

in freebsd you only need to mount your Flash memory with noatime option (see /etc/fstab), besides activating tmpfs will not write temporary files in your flash memory but they will be cached directly in your RAM (tmpfs actually acts as a RAM disk)

[Sonixant]

yep, already tried but pcbsd minimal requirements are 10GB of free space against 4GB of Eee PC 701 :/

[RenegadeFury]

Anyone tried installing pcbsd?

[reddak91]

cool!

[quarkshooters700]

you just convinced me to go and install this on my 701. great job man.

[Sonixant]

yeah, but I suggest installing xfce or lxde which are small and pretty fast

[RenegadeFury]

What happens if you install a gui for it?

[gr4tuitou5]

I put FreeBSD on an SD card. I might put it on the actual SSD inside because I think eeebuntu overloads it a bit probably reducing its life.