Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 11:49:48 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD remote install Message-ID: <3FEF09AC.8070600@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.1.20031228030024.02d59dd8@popserver.sfu.ca> References: <5.0.2.1.1.20031228030024.02d59dd8@popserver.sfu.ca>
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Colin Percival wrote: > As you are all aware, many computer systems around the world are > possessed by evil penguins. It would be nice to exorcize these > evil spirits, but this can be difficult if we don't have physical > access to the machines in question. > > I've put together some code for remotely installing FreeBSD over > existing i386 Linux systems. In short, I use NetBSD's makefs tool > to build a FreeBSD disk image which boots entirely into memory, > sets up the network, and sets a root password. Providing that the > beginning of the machine's drive is quiescent (ie, if the first > partition is swap, and you've disabled swapping), you can write > this image to disk with dd, reboot, and ssh into FreeBSD. > Once you've got a complete FreeBSD filesystem running in memory, > you can slice and partition your drives and install FreeBSD > however you like; this has the added side effect of making vinum > installations much easier. > > For the code and more details, see > http://www.daemonology.net/depenguinator/ I just wanted to comment that this is _very_ cool! -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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