ghostbsd-build

Live media creator for GhostBSD distribution

Introduction

The purpose of this tool is to quickly generate live images for GhostBSD.

Features

• Build GhostBSD from packages
• Mate and XFCE desktop environments
• Hybrid DVD/USB image

Graphics support

• Compatible with VirtualBox, VMware, NVIDIA graphics out of box
• SCFB support with automatic best resolution for UEFI enabled systems with Intel/AMD graphics

System requirements

• Latest version of GhostBSD
• 20GB of free disk space
• 4GB of free memory

Note: GhostBSD 22.01.12 and later should be used to build ISO.

Initial setup

Install the required packages:

pkg install git transmission-utils rsync

Make sure to have linux64 kernel module loaded

kldload linux64
sysrc -f /etc/rc.conf kld_list="linux64"

Clone the repo:

git clone https://www.github.com/ghostbsd/ghostbsd-build.git

Starting a build

Enter the directory for running the LiveCD build script:

cd ghostbsd-build

To build a GhostBSD with MATE as default desktop

./build.sh -d mate -b unstable

or

./build.sh -d mate -b release

(Option) To build GhostBSD with XFCE as default desktop

./build.sh -d xfce -b unstable

Burn an image to cd:

cdrecord /usr/local/ghostbsd-build/iso/GhostBSD-22.01.12.iso

Write an image to usb stick:

dd if=/usr/local/ghostbsd-build/iso/GhostBSD-22.01.12.iso of=/dev/da0 bs=4m