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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