On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 03:52:43PM -0400, Al Zick wrote: > Hi, > > I really hope that there is someone who can help me. I want to install > NetBSD on a rackspace VPS. I have NetBSD running on a VPS hosted by someone > else, and they use a very different system for the install and I could mount > a NetBSD ISO to do the install. This worked well. However, the install on > rackspace is more of a problem. I would like to create an image of the > running VPS with dd and ssh. Then I would like to put the rackspace VPS in > recovery mode and once again use dd to install it on /dev/xvdb (which will > be /dev/xvda after switching back from recovery mode). They said on > rackspace that I don't need a Xen kernel. > > I would like to use the NetBSD boot loader, but the current install of Linux > uses grub. What boot loader should I be using?
it looks like this is a HVM guest then. You can't just dd the image of your actual Xen VPS, that won't boot. You can handle a HVM guest just as a bare-betal box. You should be able to use what I did here: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2015/09/20/msg016929.html Maybe you need adjustements for the network setup. -- Manuel Bouyer <bou...@antioche.eu.org> NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference --
