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From Linux to NetBSD, with SSH Only

Overcome most cloud providers' limitations and use the system of your choice (NetBSD)

Another situation I see quite often, are very narrow and often outdated selection of operating systems on cheap cloud providers which don't allow custom images or ISO provisionning, and which consumer services might not be helpful. In this article, my goal is to provide some understanding on the concepts Marcan used in his script and allow people (mainly hobbyists) to run the operating system of their choice on any remote servers. In the current demonstration it is possible to make it work on a virtual machine with only two gigabytes of RAM, however this takes into account that the NetBSD network ISO is only about 300MB and its installer can be run in a memory constrained (128MB) setting.

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