Re: FreeBSD remote install

From: <jqdkf_at_army.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 14:05:46 +0800
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 03:10:57AM +0000, Colin Percival wrote:
>   As you are all aware, many computer systems around the world are
> possessed by evil penguins.  It would be nice to exorcize these
> evil spirits, but this can be difficult if we don't have physical
> access to the machines in question.
> 
>   I've put together some code for remotely installing FreeBSD over
> existing i386 Linux systems.  In short, I use NetBSD's makefs tool
> to build a FreeBSD disk image which boots entirely into memory,
> sets up the network, and sets a root password.  Providing that the
> beginning of the machine's drive is quiescent (ie, if the first
> partition is swap, and you've disabled swapping), you can write
> this image to disk with dd, reboot, and ssh into FreeBSD.
>   Once you've got a complete FreeBSD filesystem running in memory,
> you can slice and partition your drives and install FreeBSD
> however you like; this has the added side effect of making vinum
> installations much easier.
> 
>   For the code and more details, see
> http://www.daemonology.net/depenguinator/
> 

This sounds great. But I can't agree with you that Linux is evil. No
matter what OS you are using, BSD series or Linux or other free
software, I think we all have the same spirit against those commercial
software and MS, so why flame each other worthlessly? If you can write a
code to replace windows, that would be better. Anyway, there are 97
percent desktops all over the world running windows.

-- 
Zeng Nan

Simple is Beautiful.
Received on Sat Dec 27 2003 - 21:05:51 UTC

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