>>> I'm getting ready to install Gentoo on a remote bare metal server at >>> SoftLayer: >>> >>> http://knowledgelayer.softlayer.com/procedure/mount-iso-bare-metal-server >>> >>> Option 1 requires that I have "infrastructure deployed on SoftLayer" >>> which I guess means a second server there which I don't have. Option >>> 2 seems to require that I have a NAS at SoftLayer which I don't have. >>> That leaves me with Option 3 which requires that I set up a VPN >>> connection, enable java in my browser, and download "Java iKVM >>> viewer". >>> >>> Is there a better way? If not, is there an easy way to set up that >>> VPN connection? I've always read that OpenVPN is a bear and I've been >>> lucky enough to avoid needing it all this time. >> >> Hi, >> >> Does SoftLayer provide a rescue OS for there servers? Or at least, >> some amd64 linux that you can boot from PXE. > > > It looks like they have both: > > https://knowledgelayer.softlayer.com/procedure/launch-rescue-kernel > > https://knowledgelayer.softlayer.com/learning/introduction-no-os > > Is the rescue kernel likely a way to boot to some attached OS with tools? > > Also I have several identical disks on this system if there's a way to > leverage that for this purpose.
I booted the "Rescue" and I think it's the same OS except read-only and probably some other tweaks. - Grant
