Re: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.

2009-11-14 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:50:03 +0200, Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote: It seems however that some dedicated servers are setup using a single slice and a single partition, i.e. having /usr /var and /tmp as subdirectories in / instead of separate filesystems. Well, that's no problem per se,

Re: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.

2009-11-14 Thread Peter
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:50:03 +0200, Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote: It seems however that some dedicated servers are setup using a single slice and a single partition, i.e. having /usr /var and /tmp as subdirectories in / instead of separate filesystems. Well, that's no problem per

Re: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.

2009-11-14 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:38:40 -0700 (MST), Peter fb...@peterk.org wrote: UFS: I usually setup a ~10G slice for the OS [ad0s1] and in that slice I have a /tmp /var /usr...and then use the rest of the disk for another slice containing all my data and home directories - This way if I ever need

Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.

2009-11-13 Thread Roger
Hello all, I'm in control of a dedicated server and I would like to re-install FreeBSD. I found the following guide: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/remote-install/ which seems to cover pretty much all should need but it assumes that I have some other OS (linux) installed, since I have

Re: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.

2009-11-13 Thread Julien Gormotte
Roger rno...@gmail.com a écrit : Hello all, I'm in control of a dedicated server and I would like to re-install FreeBSD. I found the following guide: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/remote-install/ which seems to cover pretty much all should need but it assumes that I have some other

Re: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.

2009-11-13 Thread Adam Vande More
Hello all, I'm in control of a dedicated server and I would like to re-install FreeBSD. I found the following guide: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/remote-install/ which seems to cover pretty much all should need but it assumes that I have some other OS (linux) installed, since I

Re: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.

2009-11-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 03:28:04PM -0500, Roger wrote: Hello all, I'm in control of a dedicated server and I would like to re-install FreeBSD. I found the following guide: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/remote-install/ which seems to cover pretty much all should need but it assumes

Re: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.

2009-11-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 05:12:06PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 03:28:04PM -0500, Roger wrote: Hello all, I'm in control of a dedicated server and I would like to re-install FreeBSD. I found the following guide:

Re: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.

2009-11-13 Thread Polytropon
A little sidenote: On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:28:04 -0500, Roger rno...@gmail.com wrote: The reason for wanting to re-install is because I only have on big slice that covers the entire harddrive and I don't want that. Primarily I would like to have /usr/local in a separate slice. In most cases,

Re: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.

2009-11-13 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Polytropon wrote: A little sidenote: On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:28:04 -0500, Roger rno...@gmail.com wrote: The reason for wanting to re-install is because I only have on big slice that covers the entire harddrive and I don't want that. Primarily I would like to have /usr/local in a