freebsd on rackspace

[Tony Theodore]

On 15 July 2011 15:57, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just talked to rackspace tech support on an other issue and they
> said they plan to offer FreeBSD as a option after the upgrade from
> Zend Classic to Zend Enterprise (ETA not known).... but they did say
> we as a client are free to overwrite any slice on the virtual disk and
> then use the console to configure GRUB to boot that kernel... any
> ideas on how to proceed from this general advice to an actual
> implementation? ..... they also said if we did get it to work before
> the Zend upgrade was complete they would use our solution as the
> standard one

Colin Percival has done some work to get FreeBSD running on EC2:

http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-on-ec2/

that might be a good start for some pointers.

Cheers,

Tony