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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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