Re: EC2 Instances Future

2013-04-11 Thread Arthur Chance
27;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@fre

RE: EC2 Instances Future

2013-04-11 Thread Don O'Neil
d.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Michael Sierchio Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 7:44 AM To: Don O'Neil Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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

Re: EC2 Instances Future

2013-04-11 Thread Michael Sierchio
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

RE: EC2 Instances Future

2013-04-10 Thread Don O'Neil
ilto: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),

Re: EC2 Instances Future

2013-04-10 Thread Michael Sierchio
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