[nycbug-talk] Imaging software for FreeBSD

[Marc Spitzer]

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 15:48:33 -0500, Kevin Reiter <tux at penguinnetwerx.net> wrote:
> : Does anyone know of a fast imaging program for BSD. I want to setup
> : FreeBSD for my two little brothers. The computers that I have are only
> : p500mhz and installing KDE took me about 26 hours.
> 
> Try downloading the SystemRescueCD from http://www.sysresccd.org/ and use
> partimage.  Lots of handy tools on that there CD...
> 
> : Not wanting to sit through that long process I decided to try  g4u
> : (http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/) and now I am day four and this thing is
> : still running.
> 
> Either turn off the compression or change it to gzip instead of bzip2 (I'm
> guessing at this point that's what you're currently using, since I had the same
> thing happen ;)
> 
> HTH
> Kev
> 

this is not what you asked for but couldn't you just use binary
packages for things like kde, or almost anything elses in the package
tree?

marc