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Date:      Thu, 17 Aug 2000 11:44:34 +0100
From:      Tim Priebe <tim@polytechnic.edu.na>
To:        Andrey Lakhno <land@dnepr.net>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Remote FreeBSD installing
Message-ID:  <399BC212.6A8D9A46@polytechnic.edu.na>
References:  <5014128964.20000816213239@dnepr.net>

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Andrey Lakhno wrote:
> 
> Hi !
> 
>   I  have  computer whith 2 hard disk drives running Linux.
>   Linux is installed on the first hdd. The second one is clean.
>   I have telnet access to my Linyx box. No physical access.
> 
>   Can i install FreeBSD 4.1 on second drive ?
>   And how can i do this ?

Yes, create an image for your second hard drive, and use dd to install
it on the drive. Ideally you would do this by installing and testing on
an identical system that you do have physical access to, and then with
all of the filesystems on the newly installed disk unmounted, doing
something like

dd if=/dev/hdb|rsh remotesys dd of=/dev/hdb

you will then want to tell lilo to boot the master boot record on the
second drive.

I would carefully consider the benifits and risks of this before I
attempted it. Risks are primarily making a mistake, and the system not
coming up after a reboot.

Tim.


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