Subject: Re: Using NetBSD with Serverbeach? Any experience here?
To: Brian Buhrow <buhrow@lothlorien.nfbcal.org>
From: Zafer Aydogan <zafer@aydogan.de>
List: current-users
Date: 10/31/2007 12:07:06
2007/10/31, Brian Buhrow <buhrow@lothlorien.nfbcal.org>:
>         Hello.  I have a potential client who wants me to build them a system
> using one of their ServerBeach servers.  It's an Astrisk PBX based system,
> which is built atop a NetBSD-2.x image which I know is stable and reliable
> for this application.  I've never used Serverbeach before, and I don't quite
> understand how their system works.  According to the client, they've only
> used Linux with Serverbeach, and their explanations of how we might flip to
> a BSD based system were somewhat unsatisfactory.  A web search of NetBSD
> and Serverbeach services was even less satisfactory.  Does anyone have
> experience using NetBSD with Serverbeach servers?  If so, what do you ask
> them to install, how do you get to the console?  Can you get to the
> console?  Do they  run servers like the Sun X2200MV2 server or the Sun V20Z
> server where the console can be reached via ssh?
> -thanks
> -Brian
>
Some of your questions can be answered, if you visit the Serverbeach website.
Aslong there is some sort of rescue system (which it seems to), you
will be able to install NetBSD yourself.  A console is helpful but not
necessary.
The easiest solution is to ask them to install NetBSD for you.

Zafer.