[HN Gopher] OpenBSD 7.5 via QEMU on Hetzner physical machine (no...
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       OpenBSD 7.5 via QEMU on Hetzner physical machine (no phys. access /
       KVM console)
        
       Author : hoschi_
       Score  : 42 points
       Date   : 2024-08-11 19:33 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (hackmd.gfuzz.de)
        
       | clan wrote:
       | Nice write-up. It should really not be that hard but
       | unfortunately it is. And it is getting worse.
       | 
       | It made me sad to see that Hetzner had discontinued the FreeBSD
       | rescue system. But it seems to be correct:
       | https://community.hetzner.com/tutorials/freebsd-openzfs-via-...
       | 
       | How much did it really cost them to have the mfsbsd image
       | available?
        
         | networked wrote:
         | For Hetzner and other dedicated servers, there is a prepackaged
         | script to bootstrap FreeBSD from Linux: https://depenguin.me/.
        
       | accrual wrote:
       | Pretty clever to boot a virtual QEMU VM and pass through the
       | physical disks for installation. Nice that it can be done without
       | a support request.
        
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