Have you made any AMI's based on this method? I would love to deploy a medium or large instance that isn't subject to the 'tax', but don't really know where to start to build one like this.
-----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Michael Sierchio Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 1:05 PM To: jflowers Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: EC2 Instances Future I still follow Colin's original pattern of using a minimal "Linux" grub boot EBS device (1GB), ext2fs, with the root partition being on another (ufs2) EBS device. This works very well, with a couple of caveats - - Install e2fsprogs (pkg or port) - you will need it, on occasion when modifying the boot device (after mounting rw). - Kernel upgrades are tricky, so be careful - Edit /etc/freebsd-update.conf intelligently to prevent unintended consequences Apart from that, I have been running i386 and amd64 instances this way, both 8.3 and 9.1, without difficulty (apart from some Xen clock weirdness in 8.3). No Windoze Tax. ;-) - M On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:05 AM, jflowers <jflow...@ezo.net> wrote: > Is there anything likely to be available in the future (3 months to a > year) to avoid the Windows tax on FreeBSD instances for the smaller > (t1.micro, m1.small, m1.medium) types? I understand the problem but > don't find anything much online about a possible solution. Probably > because I don't understand as much as I think. > > Thanks. > > -- > Jim Flowers <jflow...@ezo.net> > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
