How to install FreeBSD remotely from Debian Linux Environment?
Yves Vogl
yves.vogl at deetune.com
Tue Dec 11 10:37:58 PST 2007
Hi,
I tried to install FreeBSD from an existing Debian 4.0 Linux
installation with "Depenguinator 1.1".
Depenguinator failed due to a wide range of incompatibilities caused
by gcc-4.0 and the beta code used in Depenguinator.
Next I built an image under my local Mac OS X 10.5 with QEMU - but the
next step would have been to copy the image via dd to harddisk of the
remote server.
The problem is that Linux doesn't support ufs and the additional ufs-
tools either won't compile because of gcc-4.0, current Linux kernel
etc. .
I don't have the possibility to use KVM-over-Ethernet - but I can ask
a technician to boot from a CD-ROM. The problem here is that the
neither the bootonly.iso or one of the others automatically start SSH
and connect via DHCP… don't they?
So... is there another way to start a remote installation?
Best Regards,
Yves
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