AMD64 depenguinator?

[Thierry Herbelot]

Le Friday 07 December 2007, Stanislaw Halik a écrit :
> Heya,
>
> I'd like to use depenguinator
> <http://www.daemonology.net/depenguinator/> to get rid of Linux on my
> dedicated servers. This one only works for IA-32 and my machines are
> mostly AMD64.
>
> Could you please share an AMD64 depenguinator so I won't have to either
> stick with Linux or change my dedicated server provider?
>
> TIA,
> -sh

Hello,

you can always use the ia32 depenguinator to install an AMD64 server by using 
an intermediate ia32 FreeBSD partition :
1/ install depenguinator in the linux swap
2/ reboot into the ia32 FreeBSD installer
3/ partition your disk with a main and *one more* BIOS partition (around 
200MB - see end of post)
4/ install a minimal i386 system in the supplemental partition
5/ reboot into the i386 minimal partition
6/ disklabel the main partition
7/ install the AMD64 binaries into the main partition
8/ reboot and switch to the AMD64 partition

there you are ! a full amd64 system is available ;-)

	TfH

PS : disk space needed for a minimal 6.3 i386 installation :
Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a    116M     38M     69M    35%    /
/dev/ad0s1d     58M     12K     53M     0%    /tmp
/dev/ad0s1e     58M    368K     53M     1%    /var
/dev/ad0s1f    646M    103M    491M    17%    /usr
PS2 : new installation in the main partition (ad0s1)
# newfs -U /dev/ad0s1f
# newfs -U /dev/ad0s1e
# newfs -U /dev/ad0s1d
# newfs /dev/ad0s1a
# mount /dev/ad0s1a /mnt
# mkdir /mnt/var
# mkdir /mnt/tmp
# mkdir /mnt/usr
# mount /dev/ad0s1d /mnt/tmp
# mount /dev/ad0s1e /mnt/var
# mount /dev/ad0s1f /mnt/usr

# cat base/base.?? | tar --unlink -xpzf - -C /mnt
# cat kernels/generic.?? | tar --unlink -xpzf - -C /mnt/boot
# rmdir /mnt/boot/kernel
# mv /mnt/boot/GENERIC/ /mnt/boot/kernel

(adjust configuration files and reboot)