tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088979.post7772606841266884074..comments2008-02-05T19:23:44.747-05:00Richard Bejtlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13512184196416665417noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088979.post-3348987570331428092008-02-05T19:23:00.000-05:002008-02-05T19:23:00.000-05:00I tried this on an older Slackware install (we're talking Slackware 9, using Lilo and something around a 2.6.8 kernel--very old stuff, here.) It seemed to work perfectly once I got the Lilo configuration right.<BR/><BR/>The only real gotcha was that I had to change the partition type of the new partition to A5 (FreeBSD) from 82 (Linux Swap) before it would boot.<BR/><BR/>I was quite pleased that it worked so well on such an older system.<BR/><BR/>I'm planning on adding a sysinstall script to the image so that I can pretty easily install the new OS.erikohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15126293804664715055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088979.post-11119572182483558022008-01-30T06:00:00.000-05:002008-01-30T06:00:00.000-05:00Agreed...the fact the image builds probably means I'm at fault somewhere!<BR/><BR/>Its a perfect foundation to work on, I can't wait to get it working.Kevnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088979.post-34819720595915293142008-01-30T05:41:00.000-05:002008-01-30T05:41:00.000-05:00Hi Kev,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for your post!<BR/><BR/>I plan to use "local hands" and an IP KVM at this point, so anything Colin does is a bonus.Richard Bejtlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13512184196416665417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088979.post-2408521577571779392008-01-30T04:35:00.000-05:002008-01-30T04:35:00.000-05:00I tested the same systems as you last night (CentOS 5.1 -> FBSD 7) and had mixed results.<BR/><BR/>I managed to get round SElinux (switched it off ;) ) and I managed to solve the dependencies for building :<BR/><BR/>- uudecode I used from busybox-anaconda<BR/><BR/>- bsdtar I build from hand from the libarchive source. This require the bzip libs installed to build with the -z compression option<BR/><BR/>If you have better solutions for the above, I'd be interested to hear.<BR/><BR/>This, along with a FreeBSD 7 RC2 CD successfully built the disk.img file after running depenguinator.<BR/><BR/>However...Colin's instructions fall down slightly here as, assuming a stock install, RHEL / CentOS boxes come with swap as part of an LVM partition.<BR/><BR/>This leaves only /boot as the spare partition to dd the depenguinator image onto. However you do this, and you lose grub.<BR/><BR/>Whilst Colin's solution is elegant it's not very flexible. I tried the below with mixed results :<BR/><BR/>- dd'd the image to a seperate drive (sdb1) and told grub to boot from there. Grub returned an error (off the top of my head something aking to an unknown binary type)<BR/><BR/>- dd'd the image to /dev/hda1 (the /boot partition) which left the grub loader intact on the boot sector. Attempted to manually tell grub to load from there. Grub reported it didn't know what type of partition /dev/hda1 (hd(0,0)) now was and failed.<BR/><BR/>- dd'd the image directly to /dev/hda. This booted and gave me the FreeBSD bootloader but then error'd trying to boot the FreeBSD kernel (kernel / loader not found).<BR/><BR/>So mixed results. I'm going to replicate Colin's instructions precisely (using Ubuntu) tonight or tomorrow. It may be slight differences in Ubuntu's built libraries that cause a difference in behaviour? Certainly I seem to have built the image with success - it's just having problems booting!<BR/><BR/>Hope this helps some, if I can fill in any gaps let me know. <BR/><BR/>As you were the original 'bounty' requester - is Colin looking to tailor this to RHEL / CentOS / Fedora for you?Kevnoreply@blogger.com