From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 15 07:35:46 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E766B106566B for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 07:35:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tonyt@logyst.com) Received: from smtp.webfaction.com (mail6.webfaction.com [74.55.86.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C79118FC08 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 07:35:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f44.google.com (mail-fx0-f44.google.com [209.85.161.44]) by smtp.webfaction.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48F7759A01A3 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 02:06:24 -0500 (CDT) Received: by fxe6 with SMTP id 6so1751642fxe.17 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:06:23 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.40.198 with SMTP id l6mr4874459fae.14.1310713583152; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:06:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.89.142 with HTTP; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:06:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:06:22 +1000 Message-ID: From: Tony Theodore To: Aryeh Friedman Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: FreeBSD chat Subject: Re: freebsd on rackspace X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 07:35:47 -0000 On 15 July 2011 15:57, Aryeh Friedman 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