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Date:      Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:06:22 +1000
From:      Tony Theodore <tonyt@logyst.com>
To:        Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD chat <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: freebsd on rackspace
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On 15 July 2011 15:57, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just talked to rackspace tech support on an other issue and they
> said they plan to offer FreeBSD as a option after the upgrade from
> Zend Classic to Zend Enterprise (ETA not known).... but they did say
> we as a client are free to overwrite any slice on the virtual disk and
> then use the console to configure GRUB to boot that kernel... any
> ideas on how to proceed from this general advice to an actual
> implementation? ..... they also said if we did get it to work before
> the Zend upgrade was complete they would use our solution as the
> standard one

Colin Percival has done some work to get FreeBSD running on EC2:

http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-on-ec2/

that might be a good start for some pointers.

Cheers,

Tony



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