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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