Re: installing fbsd from foreign system

Le Sunday 28 January 2007 16:22, Oliver Fromme a écrit :
Another possibility is to prepare a boot image, i.e. a file
containing boot sector and a UFS root partition with
wverything needed for bootstrapping (/boot/loader etc.,
kernel, base system). It doesn't have to cover the whole
disk, it should be just large enough for a base system and
some support software. It should contain a script which
configures the rest of the disk when it's booted (e.g.
set up remaining disk space, fetch packages from the net,
whatever).

From within your Linux deployment process, simply copy

the image to the beginning of the hard disk, then reboot.


Oone good *starting point* is the depenguinator
(http://www.daemonology.net/depenguinator/), which I used some time ago.

There are rough edges, but at least, it gives a way to convert a PC running
some version of Linux to FreeBSD. (in my experience, I had to resort to
manual tweakings to get the final BSD to run).

TfH

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