Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:03:59 +0000 From: Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install freebsd from inside another operating system Message-ID: <493D294F.7070300@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20081208144513.O71518@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <493D246C.80008@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> <20081208144513.O71518@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> >> Reason I'm asking is that my boss is asking about getting another >> commodity server using a provider that doesn't offer freebsd. We do >> get KVM over IP however, and I assume that really clever people might >> know how to handle this sort of thing if they have console access. > > stupid/strange solution: run qemu under linux giving FReeBSD iso as > cdrom, and linux swap partition as disk (disable swap on linux > temporarily), install it WITHOUT making slices and labels (manually) - > minimum install, make sure whole "disk" (actually linux swap partition) > is bootable, then exit qemu, run linux fdisk to set swap partition as > bootable instead of linux root, reboot. > > you will get FreeBSD working, repartition everything else, optionally > copy FreeBSD to partition that has to be /, reboot, ready > That almost sounds doable :) not sure my ubuntu/qemu skills are really there yet. Can you run qemu in a tty/console? -- Robin Becker
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