From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 7 18:31:58 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF12616A419 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 18:31:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Received: from smtp4-g19.free.fr (smtp4-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.30]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C3C513C461 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 18:31:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Received: from smtp4-g19.free.fr (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp4-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id E879A3EA217 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 19:31:56 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.herbelot.nom (bne75-4-82-227-159-103.fbx.proxad.net [82.227.159.103]) by smtp4-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A9EC3EA0E8 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 19:31:56 +0100 (CET) Received: from diversion.herbelot.nom (diversion.herbelot.nom [192.168.2.6]) by mail.herbelot.nom (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lB7IVq6D017538; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 19:31:53 +0100 (CET) From: Thierry Herbelot To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 19:31:45 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <20071206233443.GA15969@tehran.lain.pl> In-Reply-To: <20071206233443.GA15969@tehran.lain.pl> X-Warning: Windows can lose your files X-Op-Sys: Le FriBi de la mort qui tue X-Org: TfH&Co X-MailScanner: Found to be clean MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200712071931.46565.thierry@herbelot.com> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:16:14 +0000 Cc: Stanislaw Halik Subject: Re: AMD64 depenguinator? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: thierry@herbelot.com List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:31:58 -0000 Le Friday 07 December 2007, Stanislaw Halik a écrit : > Heya, > > I'd like to use depenguinator > to get rid of Linux on my > dedicated servers. This one only works for IA-32 and my machines are > mostly AMD64. > > Could you please share an AMD64 depenguinator so I won't have to either > stick with Linux or change my dedicated server provider? > > TIA, > -sh Hello, you can always use the ia32 depenguinator to install an AMD64 server by using an intermediate ia32 FreeBSD partition : 1/ install depenguinator in the linux swap 2/ reboot into the ia32 FreeBSD installer 3/ partition your disk with a main and *one more* BIOS partition (around 200MB - see end of post) 4/ install a minimal i386 system in the supplemental partition 5/ reboot into the i386 minimal partition 6/ disklabel the main partition 7/ install the AMD64 binaries into the main partition 8/ reboot and switch to the AMD64 partition there you are ! a full amd64 system is available ;-) TfH PS : disk space needed for a minimal 6.3 i386 installation : Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 116M 38M 69M 35% / /dev/ad0s1d 58M 12K 53M 0% /tmp /dev/ad0s1e 58M 368K 53M 1% /var /dev/ad0s1f 646M 103M 491M 17% /usr PS2 : new installation in the main partition (ad0s1) # newfs -U /dev/ad0s1f # newfs -U /dev/ad0s1e # newfs -U /dev/ad0s1d # newfs /dev/ad0s1a # mount /dev/ad0s1a /mnt # mkdir /mnt/var # mkdir /mnt/tmp # mkdir /mnt/usr # mount /dev/ad0s1d /mnt/tmp # mount /dev/ad0s1e /mnt/var # mount /dev/ad0s1f /mnt/usr # cat base/base.?? | tar --unlink -xpzf - -C /mnt # cat kernels/generic.?? | tar --unlink -xpzf - -C /mnt/boot # rmdir /mnt/boot/kernel # mv /mnt/boot/GENERIC/ /mnt/boot/kernel (adjust configuration files and reboot)