installing fbsd from foreign system

[Thierry Herbelot]

Le Sunday 28 January 2007 16:22, Oliver Fromme a écrit :
> Another possibility is to prepare a boot image, i.e. a file
> containing boot sector and a UFS root partition with
> wverything needed for bootstrapping (/boot/loader etc.,
> kernel, base system).  It doesn't have to cover the whole
> disk, it should be just large enough for a base system and
> some support software.  It should contain a script which
> configures the rest of the disk when it's booted (e.g.
> set up remaining disk space, fetch packages from the net,
> whatever).
>
> >From within your Linux deployment process, simply copy
>
> the image to the beginning of the hard disk, then reboot.
>

Oone good *starting point* is the depenguinator 
(http://www.daemonology.net/depenguinator/), which I used some time ago.

There are rough edges, but at least, it gives a way to convert a PC running 
some version of Linux to FreeBSD. (in my experience, I had to resort to 
manual tweakings to get the final BSD to run).

	TfH

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