| OVH no longer provides an option to install SmartOS on its dedicated servers. Luckily, we can boot the machine using IPXE and use IPMI to run through the setup proces on the kvm console. The OVH/SoYouStart manager interface doesn’t give direct access to that, but luckily SYS and OVH have identical REST APIs. | |
| First, set up a webserver somewhere and dump the platform directory you want to boot from into a folder on that webserver. For example, I’m using /smartos. | |
| NOTE: if you don't need to boot a customized smartos platform image, you might be able to use the hosted image discussed here: https://docs.smartos.org/pxe-booting-smartos/ | |
| NOTE: it seems these endpoints aren't available any more, but OVH has a document that describes the new approach (the ipxe script goes in the "bootScript"attribute of your server's record): | |
| https://docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/bare-metal-cloud/dedicated-servers/ipxe-scripts | |
| The parts of the gist above and notes below are still valid in terms of the IPXE script and setup, just t |
cd /opt/local/artifacts/
vim zonemanifestBhyveFreeBSD.json
vmadm create < zonemanifestBhyveFreeBSD.json
curl -kLo /zones/UUID/root/FreeBSD-12.0-RC3-amd64-bootonly.iso
The following line is for KVM, not BHYVE, hence obsoleted for non-legacy boot options
cd /zones/<<UUID>>/root/
| How to install OpenBSD with bhyve-vm on SmartOS (20190424): | |
| tl;dr: | |
| Create a bhyve vm with an empty disk, where you put an install image with dd afterwards. | |
| "bhyve_extra_opts": "-w" | |
| "bootrom": "uefi" | |
| "vcpus": 1 (is needed too, some say..) | |
| Change to serial console when booting the install image | |
| Do it like this: |
| #!/bin/sh | |
| exec tail -n +3 $0 | |
| # This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the | |
| # menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change | |
| # the 'exec tail' line above. | |
| menuentry "SmartOS" { | |
| recordfail | |
| insmod ext2 | |
| insmod gzio |
| # Licensed under CC BY 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ | |
| # Derived works must attribute https://gist.github.com/4492300 at the beginning, and the date. | |
| ################################################################## | |
| Installing and Configuring SmartOS at Hetzner (with a /29) | |
| ################################################################## | |
| # This is another version of Jahewson's Gist here: https://gist.github.com/jahewson/4492300 that adds a gate to prevent packets | |
| from leaking out from the main MAC address. |
Hetzner no longer offers direct install of FreeBSD, but we can do it ourselves. Here is how :)
Boot the hetzner server in Hetnzer Debain based rescue mode. ssh into it. then:
wget https://mfsbsd.vx.sk/files/iso/14/amd64/mfsbsd-14.0-RELEASE-amd64.iso
qemu-system-x86_64 \
Not everything you want to keep in a VCS is a "project": Sometimes you have one single file which does not belong to any other files, but you still want to have it version-controlled. Assume a TODO file, an Office document or something. How well do various version control systems perform here?
Preface:
$ uname -smr
Darwin 19.3.0 x86_64
$ sccs -V
sccs schily-SCCS version 5.09 2020/01/31 (x86_64-apple-macosx19.3.0)
| https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8874615/how-to-replace-a-running-function-in-common-lisp | |
| http://readevalprint.tumblr.com/post/101841449553/its-alive-the-path-from-library-to-web-app | |
| https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46499463/hot-debug-and-swap-in-common-lisp | |
| http://lisp-univ-etc.blogspot.com/2013/06/free-lisp-hackers-ebook.html | |
| https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ | |
| http://www.ymeme.com/ | |
| https://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/lispguide.xml | |
| http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5447071/lisp-importing-loading-file | |
| http://programming-puzzler.blogspot.com/2010/08/racket-vs-clojure.html | |
| http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11876815/common-lisp-a-lisp-n |