Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 18:48:38 +0400 From: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Headless upgrade from Linux to FreeBSD Message-ID: <cb52064205061607481dbe5853@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello, I've been using FreeBSD for a while - and I prefer it to all other server OS'es, but incidentally I have Fedora Core 3 installed on one of the servers I manage. I consulted all interested parties and they have nothing against migrating it to FreeBSD. I've got physical access to the box, but I'd would like it very much to make a headless upgrade. It's a single-Opteron box with around 130Gb on a 200Gb SATA hard drive, the internet bandwidth is about 20Mbit/s. In fact, I've already tried to run FreeBSD-5.3 on this very box - without any problem. There is no DHCP/DNS on the network it's connected to, so static preconfigured IP-address is a must, as well as a pre-configured BIND (or at least resolv.conf with one of my external DNS-servers). I'm thinking about creating a large hard-drive image (with FreeBSD) and somehow writing it on the hard-drive with an in-memory dd-like tool. Can anybody suggest a better way? Maybe I could even save some data without backing it all up on another server? Thanks, Andrew P.
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