Re: Trying to install NeBSD on bare metal through a Linux distro

[Pierre-Philipp Braun <pbraun%nethence.com@localhost>]

On 20/05/2022 19:01, tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost wrote:
> I'm testing the use of a bare metal dedicated server.
>
> The provider (in this case OVH) presents some pre-built OS images to
> install, but NetBSD isn't one of them (in my case, even the FreeBSD
> installations that exist on other offers aren't proposed).

I was doing the same on Dedibox/Scaleway directly from GNU/Linux rescue 
system, as EXT2FS.

Installing NetBSD from GNU/Linux
https://pub.nethence.com/bsd/malabar

However netbsd's EXT2FS isn't that great and I had issues cloning and 
maintaining GIT repos on it.  It seemed some feature was buggy or 
missing.  GIT was not working well.  Other than that, the system was 
stable though.

So I eventually switched to FFS, also directly from GNU/Linux thanks to 
the toolchain, namely tools/bin/nbmakefs which got cross-build on 
GNU/Linux without issue and could create a 3G FFS file-system, then 
extended at first boot to the full length of the physical disk.

Installing NetBSD on FFS2 from GNU/Linux
https://pub.nethence.com/bsd/malabar-ffs

That works and seems ideal to me.

Besides, while I was trying multiple ways to get NetBSD on Dedibox, I 
also was successful with installing it from their FreeBSD rescue system, 
which you also have at OVH apparently.

Installing NetBSD from FreeBSD
https://pub.nethence.com/bsd/malabar.freebsd

HTH ;-)
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