Install freebsd over linux

gotta love this freebsd handbook. I see i can install and remove shit using sysinstall which is exactly what I need.

Thanks again for all your help guys. without you I would have had to get out a shovel and dig so much more.

Thanks many times
 
lol yes it was fun. Ya im quickly noticing that sysinstall is not the best way to go. Im having much more success in /usr/ports
make
make config
make install
But I also noticed that freebsd is not as lazy as debian and ubuntu. Like if you install via ports apache or mysql it wont even start the server for you lol
You need to setup rc.conf then launch it manually. Its not a bad thing since it forces me to check it over once more to be sure everything is up to par. But up to now Im really liking freebsd. These guys have travelled light years since 3.51 hehe

next im gonna make my kernel slimmer and see how much ram i can save it :)
 
Hi

I've got quite the same problem as you, but I can't make it work...

In fact I don't know how to convert my free partition into a FreeBSD one, using Debian.

Can you help me, thx.
 
ok do this:
first u have to know what drive your partition is on. example /dev/hda or /dev/sda etc..
then call it with fdisk
[cmd=]fdisk /dev/sda[/cmd]

then the partition u want to convert chose p to list the partition and if its partition 5 xample the type t
then it will ask for partition number enter 5
then it will ask to chose a partition type enter a5
then if that partition was on same drive as your debian partition it wont be able to write the changes right away. to write changes just chose w i think it is. then reboot if needed.

once back download the iso of 8.0-RC1 memstick and dd it to new partition. example if your partition was /dev/sda5 you will type
[cmd=]dd if=/home/joeblow/8.0-RC1-i386-memstick.img of=/dev/sda5[/cmd]

that will it a nutshell make your freebsd partition the same as the content of that iso. then u need to configure grub to boot on that.

So what you do is enter this in your grub config
ass this to /boot/grub/menu.1st
Code: 
title FreeBSD
root (hd0,4)
chainloader +1

this is always assuming your partition was sda5
remember in linux partition are counted from 1 but grub will count from 0
so /dev/sda3 = hd0,2
/dev/sdc6 = hd2,5
and so on.
Then reboot and you should chose freebsd from grub menu and if all went well you should be soon in the freebsd installer.

Keep us posted
 
Well I'm afraid it didn't work...

In fact I want to install pfsense and I only have the iso of a livecd, and I can't boot on it...

If you know how I can do it I'm open to all solution available, so far, nothing worked...

thx
 
so you have an optical drive in that machine then. so you just need to boot on the freebsd cd1 and install from there
 
as far as I know, depuinginator doesn't work with recent versions of FreeBSD and mfsBSD which is used in my howto has more features...
 
Hi,

I'm sorry but it didn't worked...
The problem is that I want to install pfsense, a derivate from freebsd. The boot process is a litlle different and so both the solutions you told were inoperant. They can't build a botable image, I think it's because the files needed to boot are different from freeBSD, and I can't figure out what they are...

The only way to install this distrib is via the livecd but my cdrom drive is dead, and I can't replace it.

I'll try to install it via a virtual machine but I doesn't like the idea...

If you have any clue...

Thanks
 
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