27;tax', but don't really
know where to start to build one like this.
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From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Michael Sierchio
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[mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Michael Sierchio
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To: Don O'Neil
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Subject: Re: EC2 Instances Future
I have constructed several AMIs. If I get a sense for which flavor of
instance/OS combos are of inter
Sierchio
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> I still follow Colin's original pattern of using a minimal "Linux"
> grub boot EBS device (1GB), ext2fs, with the root
ilto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Michael Sierchio
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Subject: Re: EC2 Instances Future
I still follow Colin's original pattern of using a minimal "Linux"
grub boot EBS device (1GB),
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
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 underst
