Are there BSD live cd images?
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Adventurous-Can4429 · 2021-11-11 07:12

I want to test software for BSD on real hardware. Where can I get live
images for usb drives and cds for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and others?

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shawn_blackk · 2021-11-11 07:51

ghostbsd should have a live option, like helloos, based on freebsd.
fuguita is a live version of openbsd, but it is very minimal,only good
to check hardware compatibility

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jaypatelani · 2021-11-11 07:53

For NetBSD : in Japanese you will probably need translation

http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/netbsd/liveimage/

For OpenBSD:

http://fuguita.org/

For FreeBSD:

https://www.freebsd.org/where/


For DragonflyBSD:

https://www.dragonflybsd.org/download/

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jaypatelani · 2021-11-11 07:54

Also check this https://bsd-hardware.info/

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demigod987 · 2021-11-11 12:19

NomadBSD

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deftly · 2021-11-11 13:21

For OpenBSD you can just install it to a usb drive like you are doing
a normal install.

Then just put the drive in the machine you want to test and BAM!

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PitifulView · 2021-11-11 17:42

netbsd has [live images by
default](https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-
daily/HEAD/latest/images/NetBSD-9.99.92-amd64-live.img.gz), but
they're the bare bones - no packages added, boots to console kind.

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daemonpenguin · 2021-11-11 18:34

There are several. GhostBSD is a live isc for FreeBSD, FuguIta for
OpenBSD and so on.

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Technician15569 · 2021-11-11 22:07

I'm still new to BSD, but I had the easiest time getting GhostBSD &
NomadBSD to work as live usb boots (I have not tried an actual cd).

Currently running Ghost as my main OS for the last 3 weeks, and I
absolutely love it. If you have any Linux experience Ghost will be an
easy (ish) transition.

(** Side note; if you also get an load error with bootable usb, point
the OS to your machines usb mount point (mine is /dev/da0 or
/dev/da0s1) and it should fix it. It may have been just me since I was
using a Ventoy usb for testing)

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IanArcad · 2021-11-12 00:18

I also tried ghost and was really impressed.  It is basically FreeBSD
with a great installer and initial set of packages.

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claudiom · 2021-11-12 03:05

The FreeBSD 13.0 installation has a live environment, but it's all
console-based. If you want something graphical, probably something
like GhostBSD or I think even MidnightBSD has a GUI live environment.

For OpenBSD, FuguIta has a live environment and is based on OpenBSD.

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bsdmax · 2021-11-14 18:19

FreeBSD has live cd
[https://www.freebsd.org/where/](https://www.freebsd.org/where/)
options in installer
[https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/bsdinstall/#bsdinstall-
choose-mode](http://www.sk.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-
1/books/handbook/bsdinstall-start.html#bsdinstall-choose-mode)