From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 22 21:26:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B84E16A422 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 21:26:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from albi@scii.nl) Received: from aseed.demon.nl (aseed.demon.nl [83.160.138.119]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68ADA43D70 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 21:26:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from albi@scii.nl) Received: from aseed.demon.nl (unknown [192.168.0.48]) by aseed.demon.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71DE05810FF; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:28:12 +0100 (CET) Received: from http.aseed.net (unknown [192.168.0.50]) by aseed.demon.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52F5D581081; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:28:12 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.0.11] (217-19-30-147.dsl.cambrium.nl [217.19.30.147]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by http.aseed.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFB9358C6FE; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:28:11 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4421C10F.7020001@scii.nl> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:26:39 +0100 From: albi User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mats Hecking References: <4421BF25.5020100@mats-hecking.de> In-Reply-To: <4421BF25.5020100@mats-hecking.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AV-Checked: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install FreeBSD on a remote server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 21:26:53 -0000 Mats Hecking wrote: > Hi. I have a remote server, that I can access through SSH using a Linux > Rescue CD. I would like to install FreeBSD 6.0 on this system. > First I looked at Depinguinator. I checked the script and decided that I > couldn't really use that, especially because it works for FreeBSD 5.4 only. what about installing FreeBSD 5.4 like that and then upgrade to 6.0 ? i've successfully upgraded from 5.4 to 6.0 remotely, perhaps a bit risky, but it worked for me :-) -- grtjs, albi gpg-key: lynx -dump http://scii.nl/~albi/gpg.asc | gpg --import