Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:19:45 -0600 From: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Remote Building of FreeBSD Message-ID: <201003011719.o21HJjdR015853@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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One can almost but not quite remotely build a FreeBSD system using mfsbsd. The problem is that in order to install the mfsboot.img data on the main boot drive, it is necessary to use dd to write it there and a working system already has mounted all partitions in the main drive. The systems I will be upgrading have 1 or more gigabytes of RAM available so a memory disk could conceivably hold the roughly 40-meg image that must be written to the boot sector of the main drive. For this to work, one must unmount all main drive partitions and still be able to do something like: dd if=mfsboot.img of=/dev/ad0 After that, the reboot will launch mfsbsd and the rest appears to be manageable. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group
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