Depenguinator

bushy...

Depenguinator 2.0

Could be useful to someone reading the forums someday

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Johnboy1951

bushy... wrote: »

[URL="http://http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-01-29-depenguinator-2.0.html]Depenguinator 2.0[/URL]

Could be useful to someone reading the forums someday

I wrote a script for remotely upgrading a linux system to FreeBSD.

Seems to be an error in that. Maybe it should read

"I wrote a script for remotely downgrading a linux system to FreeBSD."

bushy...

I think he put it together to convert a rented server over , remotely.
It'll keep someone occupied some rainy night

Johnboy1951

bushy... wrote: »

I think he put it together to convert a rented server over , remotely.
It'll keep someone occupied some rainy night

I had a look at the site but there was not (for me anyway) a decent explanation of the how and why etc of the script.
Maybe I missed it ...

Plenty rainy nights to choose from :mad: and days too .....

Wcool

bushy... wrote: »

Depenguinator 2.0

Could be useful to someone reading the forums someday

.

It looks like you are on a mission from god to eradicate Tux :P

Would you have a recommendation for a BSD? I really like to give it a go.
Something easy to install alongside Linux and Windows, I have no fear for the command line. AMD64, integrated ATI graphics.
Any preference and if so, any particular reason?

bushy...

Wcool wrote: »

It looks like you are on a mission from god to eradicate Tux :P

Oh god no , i'd be lost if the little penguin flew away . You can do much the same as above with incantations of ssh and all sorts.

http://www.pcbsd.org/ looks grand , haven't used it much

i've used
[URL="http://http://www.openbsd.org/]OpenBSD[/URL] for all sorts , tis grand ,

It will run linux binaries too

You need to go


# sysctl kern.emul.linux=1

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=compat_linux&sektion=8

bushy...

Idea for a sticky :

Aimed at people wanting to try opensource stuff for the first time , a listing of ready to go virtual appliances and the player etc for them.

why ? people would be able to try without much danger of killing anything.

Having Windows running might make a lot of people less nervous than running Live CDs.

eg

http://haacked.com/archive/2007/05/06/installing-ubuntu-on-virtual-pc-for-windows-lovers.aspx

http://isv-image.ubuntu.com/vmware/


PCbsd



I know its "not the same" but once they've played around with it , they might get hooked

Wcool

Will BSD this kill my dual boot Linux/Windows?

I have no problem setting up a new partition for BSD but really hate it if my boot loader is wiped without taking the previous settings.
Using grub now, linux as default

bushy...

I don't dual boot anything at all , so wouldn't say what i haven't tried .

Good manual pages with it

http://ftp.dkuug.dk/pub/OpenBSD/4.5/i386/INSTALL.i386 has all the install info ( and probably up there with worlds longest txt file)