Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 17:28:46 -0700 From: Marc Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> To: Lacey Powers <lacey.leanne@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Softlayer VPS: Loading FreeBSD Message-ID: <3D2FF45C-9C83-4504-8051-4A409E06F8BE@hub.org> In-Reply-To: <557A241D.5090307@gmail.com> References: <6277AB8E-EDF5-436A-B1A9-5C041041E165@hub.org> <CAKE2PDtCki%2B7v3wN5BNoao8v3eiqgZb_0q27hocjqgANObaEbg@mail.gmail.com> <64385A15-591B-4933-BD83-45EAA5A372C5@hub.org> <557A0B64.9050808@sysconfig.org.uk> <B6B22B33-980C-444B-874A-EE9ED0784FDD@hub.org> <557A241D.5090307@gmail.com>
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Marc G Fournier Owner, Hub.Org <http://hub.org/>; Hosting Solutions S.A. > On Jun 11, 2015, at 17:13, Lacey Powers <lacey.leanne@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On 06/11/2015 16:00, Marc Fournier wrote: >> Marc G Fournier >> Owner, Hub.Org <http://hub.org/>; Hosting Solutions S.A. >> >>> On Jun 11, 2015, at 15:27, Carsten Heesch <ch@sysconfig.org.uk> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> That gave us IPMI access for the Bare Metal server we put in place, >>>> but no KVM access for VPS … for VPS, I need to create an ISO of my >>>> install, upload that and then they effectively ‘dd’ it to the VPS, >>>> which is cool, but I need to figure out how to create an image based >>>> on a VirtualBox build on a Mac OS X system :) >>> If they really just "dd" it, then a RAW image of your Virtualbox >>> instance should work, shouldn't it? >> I knew when I typed this that I shouldn’t have .. :) I don’t know what they do exactly, getting info out of htem is like pulling teeth … so far, I’m not even sure what I should be setting for ethernet configuration, although I’m suspecting “DHCP”, else I’d have to load a new ISO for each VPS I’m setting up … >> >>> Choose QCOW as the disk format in VirtualBox, and then use "qemu-img >>> convert" to make a raw image. >> I have several FreeBSD boxes, so if there is a method of converting from “XYZ -> ISO” using FreeBSD, that is cool too … I can make / configure the image on my desktop, upload to my server and do the conversion there … >> >> I can use qemu-img to pretty much convert to any format (except ISO) … but how do I get to that final step? >> >> Thinking this through … ppl make livecd’s, so this is obviously possible … does it make sense that that is all I need to do? Although I’ve never done it, mind you, but if I were to upload a regular liveCD, and they installed / booted that, that should be it … or am I overlookign something? >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Hello Marc, > > Sounds like the last thing you need is to mount the image, and use mkisofs to make your own iso > > There are examples here, > > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/creating-cds.html > > and there are also tools for making releases or custom releases in /usr/src/releaseoutlined in > > man 7 release > > Which might be easier to use and customize than coercing a VirtualBox image into something useful. > > But, the basic command for making an ISO is something like this: > > |# mkisofs -R -o /tmp/FreeBSD-Custom.iso /path/to/my/mounted/disk/image| > > You might need to change the options to suit your needs, though. > > It's been awhile since I last made custom CDs. > > Hope that helps.=) Thanks .. .we’ll see how helpful, but I’m almost ready to drop these guys and go to Backspace … there website explicitly states “FreeBSD” http://www.softlayer.com/software <http://www.softlayer.com/software>; … yet nobody there seems to be much help in getting it installed …
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