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Depenguinator

  • 24-05-2009 02:28PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭


    Depenguinator 2.0

    Could be useful to someone reading the forums someday

    .


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,944 ✭✭✭✭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."

    :p:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭bushy...


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,944 ✭✭✭✭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 .....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 654 ✭✭✭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?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭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


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 654 ✭✭✭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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭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)


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