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dusky garnet · 2025-08-25T22:13:24.000Z

1. Buy the vps 2. Restart in rescue mode 3. get the data from email and login using winscp 4. run command: wipefs -a /dev/sdb 5. run command: wget https://download.freebsd.org/releases/VM-IMAGES/12.4-RELEASE/i386/Latest/FreeBSD-12.4-RELEASE-i386.raw.xz 6. run command: xz -dc FreeBSD-12.4-RELEASE-i386.raw.xz | dd of=/dev/sdb bs=1M 7. run command: reboot vps

dusky garnet Aug 25, 2025, 10:13 PM

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Buy the vps
Restart in rescue mode
get the data from email and login using winscp
run command: wipefs -a /dev/sdb
run command: wget https://download.freebsd.org/releases/VM-IMAGES/12.4-RELEASE/i386/Latest/FreeBSD-12.4-RELEASE-i386.raw.xz
run command: xz -dc FreeBSD-12.4-RELEASE-i386.raw.xz | dd of=/dev/sdb bs=1M
run command: reboot vps

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Coming soon on vps

slender schooner Aug 25, 2025, 10:29 PM

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? I didn't get that coming soon on Vps?

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Then I can install it or not and I need 13.2

dusky garnet Aug 26, 2025, 6:31 AM

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Wget https://download.freebsd.org/releases/VM-IMAGES/13.4-RELEASE/i386/Latest/FreeBSD-13.4-RELEASE-i386.raw.xz

slender schooner Aug 26, 2025, 7:05 AM

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@dusky garnet

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lol

dusky garnet Aug 26, 2025, 7:08 AM

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Cd /dev/

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Wget

slender schooner Aug 26, 2025, 7:09 AM

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Sorry what ?

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There is no space in rescue mode to instal that freebsd

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Sorry i got that

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lol

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wth happend

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xz -dc FreeBSD-13.4-RELEASE-i386.raw.xz after that

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idk after dowloand cant do the rest steps

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after the all problems

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yea it seems like not working at all

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@dusky garnet

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un command: xz -dc FreeBSD-13.4-RELEASE-i386.raw.xz | dd of=/dev/sdb bs=1M that stuff not working at last steps.

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after dowloand it

slender schooner Aug 26, 2025, 10:16 AM

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Eh then that's nota possibile ?

dusky garnet Aug 26, 2025, 11:49 AM

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🤔

slender schooner Aug 26, 2025, 11:51 AM

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Yeah after install it

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I reboot and dashboard

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Showing server online

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But I can't even connect to the IP

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@dusky garnet

dusky garnet Aug 26, 2025, 11:52 AM

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Only kvm

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put sshd_enable="YES" into /etc/rc.conf and then either reboot or run /etc/rc.d/sshd start

slender schooner Aug 26, 2025, 11:56 AM

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idk XD

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@dusky garnet

dusky garnet Aug 26, 2025, 12:02 PM

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ee /etc/rc.conf

slender schooner Aug 26, 2025, 12:02 PM

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what now lol

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@dusky garnet

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after saving it still nothing

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Lol..

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@dusky garnet

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ok its working..

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But the password is wrong lol

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and i setup it before

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i change password for freebsd and no ssh

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how i can do it lol

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@dusky garnet im login normally at kvm

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but in ssh i cant bsc wrong password

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yea wth is that

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somehow i can reset it ? idk

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at kvm all working ssh not

dusky garnet Aug 26, 2025, 3:52 PM

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sysrc sshd_enable="YES", then service sshd start

slender schooner Aug 26, 2025, 6:35 PM

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I changed the version what ovh got

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Even that not working

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No privileges yo edit anything

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Seems like at ovh nothing work

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I didn't even get root user

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Some freebsd name

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@dusky garnet

slender schooner Aug 27, 2025, 2:00 PM

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hello?

dusky garnet Aug 27, 2025, 7:14 PM

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Sorry, the work overwhelmed me, I wrote an article to install freebsd With the activation of access to putty, remote root access is authorized https://www.okami-inu.xyz/blog/freebsd-vps-ovh-1.html

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