Re: install freebsd from inside another operating system

2008-12-15 Thread Robin Becker
After some messing around with various efforts on the depenguinator I came up with this scheme for getting a freebsd boot using an external freebsd machine ie not using the target to create the boot. ##freebsd machine #get the freebsd bootonly location wget [use your local location]/7.1-RC1-i

Re: install freebsd from inside another operating system

2008-12-13 Thread Robin Becker
My experiments with the depenguinator seem to show it has a hidden dependency on the partition used for the constructed disk image. On my ubuntu 8.10 the original install constructed /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 extended /dev/sda5 swap Not sure why the extended, but it wasn't really needed so I deleted

Re: install freebsd from inside another operating system

2008-12-09 Thread Robin Becker
Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: Robin wrote: > I'm just wondering if it is possible to install FreeBSD from inside a > bootstrap operating system such as a knoppix or ubuntu preinstall? http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-01-29-depenguinator-2.0.html Cheers, Jan Henrik well I tried pretty hard

Re: install freebsd from inside another operating system

2008-12-08 Thread Tim Judd
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 6:43 AM, Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm just wondering if it is possible to install FreeBSD from inside a > bootstrap operating system such as a knoppix or ubuntu preinstall? > > Reason I'm asking is that my boss is asking about getting another commodity > ser

Re: install freebsd from inside another operating system

2008-12-08 Thread Christian Laursen
Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm just wondering if it is possible to install FreeBSD from inside a > bootstrap operating system such as a knoppix or ubuntu preinstall? > > Reason I'm asking is that my boss is asking about getting another > commodity server using a provider that doesn

Re: install freebsd from inside another operating system

2008-12-08 Thread Robin Becker
Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: Robin wrote: > I'm just wondering if it is possible to install FreeBSD from inside a > bootstrap operating system such as a knoppix or ubuntu preinstall? http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-01-29-depenguinator-2.0.html ... I've just finished building an image u

Re: install freebsd from inside another operating system

2008-12-08 Thread Jan Henrik Sylvester
Robin wrote: > I'm just wondering if it is possible to install FreeBSD from inside a > bootstrap operating system such as a knoppix or ubuntu preinstall? http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-01-29-depenguinator-2.0.html Cheers, Jan Henrik ___ freebsd-q

Re: install freebsd from inside another operating system

2008-12-08 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:17 AM 12/8/2008, Gerhard Schmidt wrote: Robin Becker schrieb: > I'm just wondering if it is possible to install FreeBSD from inside a > bootstrap operating system such as a knoppix or ubuntu preinstall? > > Reason I'm asking is that my boss is asking about getting another > commodity server

Re: install freebsd from inside another operating system

2008-12-08 Thread Gerhard Schmidt
Robin Becker schrieb: > I'm just wondering if it is possible to install FreeBSD from inside a > bootstrap operating system such as a knoppix or ubuntu preinstall? > > Reason I'm asking is that my boss is asking about getting another > commodity server using a provider that doesn't offer freebsd. W

Re: install freebsd from inside another operating system

2008-12-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
another way - but requires more linux knowledge ( i don't have it) 1) change linux to load to ramdisk - enough of it for basic system 2) prepare your bootable hard disk image at home, same amount of sectors as target. 3) most of it will be empty, should be gzippable to <200MB (or even 100) 4) f

Re: install freebsd from inside another operating system

2008-12-08 Thread Robin Becker
Wojciech Puchar wrote: Reason I'm asking is that my boss is asking about getting another commodity server using a provider that doesn't offer freebsd. We do get KVM over IP however, and I assume that really clever people might know how to handle this sort of thing if they have console access.

Re: install freebsd from inside another operating system

2008-12-08 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Robin Becker wrote: > I'm just wondering if it is possible to install FreeBSD from inside a > bootstrap operating system such as a knoppix or ubuntu preinstall? > > Reason I'm asking is that my boss is asking about getting another > commodity server using a provider that doesn't offer freebsd. We d

Re: install freebsd from inside another operating system

2008-12-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Reason I'm asking is that my boss is asking about getting another commodity server using a provider that doesn't offer freebsd. We do get KVM over IP however, and I assume that really clever people might know how to handle this sort of thing if they have console access. stupid/strange soluti