Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 22:40:37 +0100 From: Dave Cottlehuber <dch@skunkwerks.at> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade old System Message-ID: <1511300437.469458.1180306360.267151D0@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <048B96B6-10B3-4F25-93A8-53CB7EDDCBEE@mail.sermon-archive.info> References: <BB1D7DC1-A988-4911-97E0-82C95B0A77C2@mail.sermon-archive.info> <20171111093555.a28a5692.freebsd@edvax.de> <A2B4E9EC-9B0E-4FC0-891A-7C402C8DCE87@mail.sermon-archive.info> <23046.62358.213892.447@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <048B96B6-10B3-4F25-93A8-53CB7EDDCBEE@mail.sermon-archive.info>
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On Mon, 20 Nov 2017, at 10:16, Doug Hardie wrote: > I started to sftp the new system down to the server, and it had a > catastrophic hardware failure. There is no recovery from that as it > appears the processor has failed: possibly from over voltage. Its > difficult to troubleshoot from here. The client has decided to obtain a > "new" system, so I will be installing 11.1 from scratch. At least that > what appears to be the current approach. Hopefully I don't have to make > the 4 hour drive each way. maybe you can walk somebody locally through booting up http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/ via USB or ISO. It gives you dhcp + ssh login into ramdisk based minimal FreeBSD sufficient to run the installer manually, or even to transfer in a zpool built somewhere else, ready to go. A+ Dave
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