Frenzy 1.3 (just update)

techniX
(Mozhaisky Sergei)
27.07.2010 (13:52)

Frenzy 1.3 (community release again) is out.
English version of this build is avaliable on our FTP (lite and standard version):
ftp://ftp.frenzy.org.ua/pub/Frenzy/1.3/

It's based on FreeBSD 8.1 and have a few updates:
* much more packages added - standard version is ~600 Mb
* Chromium browser included
* VirtualBox included

Discuss?

Guest
27.07.2010 (17:46)

Awesome!..does frenzy has an harddrive installer??ty

techniX
(Mozhaisky Sergei)
27.07.2010 (21:25)

Yes, it has HDD installer since 1.0 release :)

Guest
28.07.2010 (14:03)

Hi!

Am playing / working with Frenzy 1.3. Nice! Very nice!! Thank you. Am writing now from within Frenzy but I have still a lot to learn about FreeBSD.
Just two questions :
1. how to mount and access an usb-stick with Frenzy?
2. any way to avoid typing each time 'gui' / 'sound' when booting?
how to configure 'gui' (startx?) and 'sound' from commando line?

Thank you.

Guest
28.07.2010 (17:51)

Harro,

truly sorry 'bout the installer stuff i dont know it was available since 1.1, actually i have download both of frenzy iso, frenzy-1.2-reincarnation and the mini english release..

i havent heard this forum back then, anyway i have tried the 1.2 release on vm(vmware&virtualbox) yet the mouse get mess up a.k.a sometimes it detect my mouse yet hardly i can control the pointer, and sometimes it doesnt get my mouse at all..so i give up :)

umm what if i want to boot usbstick with it?not burning the CD.

and btw you have russian only language for your web, i would love to help with english and indonesian version if ok with you.

Guest
28.07.2010 (20:30)

"what if i want to boot usbstick with it?not burning the CD."
Very easy : Frenzy provides a script "install2flash" which does the job very well.

But the problem is that at the same time a "'fat" partition is created which is read-only. Wonder if there is a way of writing to that partition from within Frenzy.

Guest
29.07.2010 (08:53)

"But the problem is that at the same time a "'fat" partition is created which is read-only. Wonder if there is a way of writing to that partition from within Frenzy."

I apologize. I am wrong. This remark is misplaced. It's nice there is a 'fat' partition available. And you can easily remount it as "rw".

techniX
(Mozhaisky Sergei)
29.07.2010 (09:47)

> 1. how to mount and access an usb-stick with Frenzy?
insert USB stick, then run 'frmount' tool. use also 'remount' tool for mounting it rw/ro.
See documentation for details:
http://frenzy.org.ua/en/releases/1.1/doc/doc_en-fs.html

> 2. any way to avoid typing each time 'gui' / 'sound' when booting?
You may modify ISO image and create a file /boot/frenzyload.conf with this content:
FR_GUI=1
FR_SOUND=1
this is undocumented and untested feature, but it should work :)

Guest
29.07.2010 (10:31)

Just to say : thank you very much for kind reaction.

Any info on how to configure sound from command line?

Regards,

techniX
(Mozhaisky Sergei)
29.07.2010 (11:52)

run 'snd_kmod_probe' from command line, it does the same that 'sound' boot option.