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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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.
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
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
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