mmitchel

I was able to install FreeBSD on GCE in a very direct way, without the hurdles of Qemu, gcutil, and the FreeBSD installer. All are great tools, but I think my apporach is somewhat more suitable for GCE, or at least much simpler. Much of this is well-known practice for installing manually, with some fluff for managing it as a disk image, as well as the few odd networking requirements of GCE (MTU and netmask).



My basic approach is to:

* Use my FreeBSD machine at home to build a self-hosting "rescue" disk image for GCE.

* Start a temporary Linux machine in GCE from a provided image.