Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:10:56 +0100 From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> To: Yves Vogl <yves.vogl@deetune.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to install FreeBSD remotely from Debian Linux Environment? Message-ID: <20071213151056.GA74878@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <82A87AA2-AE4D-44BB-ACD5-6A84924B67BD@deetune.com> References: <82A87AA2-AE4D-44BB-ACD5-6A84924B67BD@deetune.com>
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On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 07:11:01PM +0100, Yves Vogl typed: > 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? Hi Yves, Best way would be to create your own custom bootable cd. This is quite easy. Maybe you can get some ideas from this (now outdated) script I used for this purpose years ago: http://www.bzerk.org/files/mk-livecd good luck, Ruben
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