by jaypatelani on 7/23/24, 2:36 AM with 22 comments
by naguam on 7/26/24, 6:38 PM
After reading all the comments, I believe I must precise, that I am aware of most of the mentioned alternative techniques.
Most of these only work as long as remote screen/keyboard control access is possible throughout a cloud panel (VNC).
My goal with this article was to avoid any third party control and making it to works even on a remote linux desktop pc used as a server.
Thanks for all the feedbacks, I appreciate it.
by DocChi77 on 7/23/24, 1:08 PM
by johnklos on 7/24/24, 6:25 AM
I've played similar tricks mounting a ramdisk, copying things in to it, starting daemons from it, then force-remounting rootfs read-only, then doing things you can't normally do. This takes things quite a bit further, and I like it.
I've never quite understood the details of Linux boot methods. This article is wonderful because it doesn't just say what to do, but explains what's going on, and in detail. Can't wait to try!
by indigodaddy on 7/26/24, 9:03 PM
Some providers off the top of my head:
prgmr.com (now tornado vps apparently) - long-standing provider - they used to have netbsd dom0’s but now it’s all Linux based it looks like so appears you have to netinstall netbsd in your vm now)
buyvm.net - reasonable pricing and have bsd available to install (can’t remember if template or iso ready to mount/install)
https://www.netcup.eu/vserver/ - excellent value / been around forever (they offer custom iso)
I will add more here as I think of them..
by doubled112 on 7/23/24, 6:03 PM
by Tepix on 7/23/24, 2:03 PM
by darkhelmet on 7/26/24, 6:11 PM
There's lots of ways if you have access to common cloud primatives (replacement root volume, etc) and have some creativity.
I did appreciate this post though because it's for a way I haven't used before.
by xolox on 7/26/24, 11:57 PM
by gslin on 7/26/24, 10:28 PM
by lagniappe on 7/23/24, 1:04 PM
by j_not_j on 7/24/24, 11:01 PM
OpenBSD has an installation ramdisk. Just boot that.
See https://raby.sh/installing-openbsd-on-ovhs-vps-2016-kvm-mach...
I've also seen "dd if=path/to/install/ramdisk /dev/sd0" and reboot; depends on being classic BIOS not uefi. Can't find the link tho.