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/ freebsd10-gce.txt
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February 18, 2016 20:21
— forked from mmitchel/freebsd10-gce.txt
Prepare FreeBSD 10 for Google Compute Engine
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| I was able to install FreeBSD on GCE in a very direct way, without the hurdles of Qemu, gcutil, and the FreeBSD installer. All are great tools, but I think my apporach is somewhat more suitable for GCE, or at least much simpler. Much of this is well-known practice for installing manually, with some fluff for managing it as a disk image, as well as the few odd networking requirements of GCE (MTU and netmask). | |
| My basic approach is to: | |
| * Use my FreeBSD machine at home to build a self-hosting "rescue" disk image for GCE. | |
| * Start a temporary Linux machine in GCE from a provided image. |