On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Harry Waddell wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 15:21:33 +0200 (CEST)
> Florian Stoehr <netbsd@wolfnode.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have SSH root access to a Linux box that booted from a CD.
>>
>> How to install NetBSD here? I have NO keyboard or serial console access,
>> so the system must come up with a sshd permitting me to log in.
>>
>> I'd do like this:
>>
>> - Install in a qemu harddisk image, on a different machine
>> - fdisk the Linux box, making a partition as large as the qemu image
>> - dd image contents starting after partition table to the linux HD
>>
>> Hm. Will this work? Any better idea?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Florian
>
>
> If the system is using the grub as a bootloader, your "safest" bet would be
> using adapting the xen how-to on the netbsd xen page
>
> http://netbsd.org/Ports/xen/howto.html
>
> to boot netbsd as an unprivileged domain, and after everything is working as it
> should, you could then make it either privileged, or just boot a regular
> kernel via the grub. Of course, this would involve first changing your linux
> kernel to one that supports xen as domain0.
>
> When I used the word "safest" in quotes above, I used it ironically.
>
> -- 
> Harry Waddell
> Caravan Electronic Publishing
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>
>

Thanks for the tip - although my approach worked, at least a test with a 
qemu netbsd image. i booted knoppix, fdisk'd from Linux, copied netbsd 
mbr, dd'ed the image of the installed hd to the new, booted from the 
new installation and finally adjusted the disklabel.

-Florian