[nycbug-talk] FreeBSD completely headless install?

[Jay Savage]

This may have been discussed before, but I couldn't find anything.

I need to install FreeBSD 6. The computer I have available is
currently running as a headless server (OBSD 3.6) and the monitor,
keyboard, and anything else useful are instorage due to a recent move.
I don't even have a null modem cable at the moment, which might
simplify matters.

My ideal here would be a live cd, or even floppy that booted with some
generic drivers, grabbed an ip from dhcp, and started sshd from a
known port with a known password so that I could start sysinstall from
the command line. It's seems intuitive enough, but I haven't been able
to find anything like it.

Does anyone have a suggestion?

Thanks,

-- jay
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