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>> >> I'm getting ready to install Gentoo on a remote bare metal server at SoftLayer: |
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>> >> http://knowledgelayer.softlayer.com/procedure/mount-iso-bare-metal-server |
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>> >> Option 1 requires that I have "infrastructure deployed on SoftLayer" |
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>> >> which I guess means a second server there which I don't have. Option |
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>> >> 2 seems to require that I have a NAS at SoftLayer which I don't have. |
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>> >> That leaves me with Option 3 which requires that I set up a VPN |
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>> >> connection, enable java in my browser, and download "Java iKVM |
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>> >> viewer". |
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>> >> Is there a better way? If not, is there an easy way to set up that |
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>> >> VPN connection? I've always read that OpenVPN is a bear and I've been |
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>> >> lucky enough to avoid needing it all this time. |
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>> > Hi, |
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>> > Does SoftLayer provide a rescue OS for there servers? Or at least, |
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>> > some amd64 linux that you can boot from PXE. |
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>> It looks like they have both: |
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>> https://knowledgelayer.softlayer.com/procedure/launch-rescue-kernel |
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>> https://knowledgelayer.softlayer.com/learning/introduction-no-os |
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>> Is the rescue kernel likely a way to boot to some attached OS with tools? |
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>> Also I have several identical disks on this system if there's a way to |
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>> leverage that for this purpose. |
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> The installation tasks before chrooting into the detared stage3 can be |
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> achieved on any Linux based OS. So, boot on the rescue kernel, do the |
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> first steps from it, and then chroot into your disk :) |
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The rescue kernel seems to only boot the same OS read-only and maybe |
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some other tweaks. Unless I'm missing something, I don't think I'll |
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be able to partition/format my disk after booting the rescue kernel |
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since I'll be working from the OS running on the same disk I need to |
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partition/format. |
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Since I have multiple disks, could I boot sda as usual, install |
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something I can boot to on sdb, switch the boot order and boot to sdb, |
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install Gentoo on sda, switch the boot order back and boot into Gentoo |
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on sda? |
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