From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 1 17:36:07 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17D131065674 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2010 17:36:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pw0-f54.google.com (mail-pw0-f54.google.com [209.85.160.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E28A38FC1A for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2010 17:36:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwj1 with SMTP id 1so282453pwj.13 for ; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:35:57 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=0HwoIpCCboDDHF868QEgzudE38mM3Zt0lCEnyHuYn6A=; b=xFNT82F1wGiJ7QeK2VJ/IzHh+cvu/XxyIqVH8k5NqpSm9HZV3yWLFyv13vvcx76+sA 67p0DE8tXvwc33XDIAcdWPDvUn0PNNhjIEYGMzph+n5toY5oUWlq11bm/HtBAIhrvj+W iYL9Vnv+5HLrL7YMJSZJVpMjJiZVmqjwZ2xrQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=GUzM0LyB7J7HfjFMDd9tJ4wPNmL7HVcFfQX0lJFA4Q0Yz9TuDIWVq2x7Zz5BzuSdCA s2sgpdkq7ccrCofa7bx8FzomlDY54VkLHncmWjfl60JyC2zfLHvMD0XrK9oxWJvwT9Bk BbhZTGOIAVKbyv2Gc0zr3wEuKe73Ohy7pe/L0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.143.179.2 with SMTP id g2mr2718281wfp.239.1267464955980; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:35:55 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <201003011719.o21HJjdR015853@dc.cis.okstate.edu> References: <201003011719.o21HJjdR015853@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 11:35:55 -0600 Message-ID: <6201873e1003010935q176765k6fbecebe3bc25fc0@mail.gmail.com> From: Adam Vande More To: Martin McCormick Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Remote Building of FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:36:07 -0000 On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Martin McCormick 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