Remote Building of FreeBSD

[Adam Vande More]

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Martin McCormick <martin at dc.cis.okstate.edu
> wrote:

> One can almost but not quite remotely build a FreeBSD system
> using mfsbsd. The problem is that in order to install the
> mfsboot.img data on the main boot drive, it is necessary to use
> dd to write it there and a working system already has mounted
> all partitions in the main drive.
>
>        The systems I will be upgrading have 1 or more gigabytes
> of RAM available so a memory disk could conceivably hold the
> roughly 40-meg image that must be written to the boot sector of
> the main drive.
>
>        For this to work, one must unmount all main drive
> partitions and still be able to do something like:
>
> dd if=mfsboot.img of=/dev/ad0
>
>        After that, the reboot will launch mfsbsd and the rest
> appears to be manageable.
>
> Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK
>

This seems to be similar to the depenguinator.

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-01-29-depenguinator-2.0.html

Maybe there some approach in there to get you over the hump.

-- 
Adam Vande More