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There's also some providers that come with freebsd support out of the box, if you want a less complex setup path https://www.vultr.com/servers/freebsd

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Digital Ocean supports FreeBSD too.

But it's good to document these manual steps so you can port the effort to NetBSD, OpenBSD, SmartOS, etc. (I've had all those run on Linode).

You don't happen to have documented these at all by chance? I am particularly interested in NetBSD.

It's the exact same steps as the guide for FreeBSD [0] but you do it with a NetBSD install image instead.

I maintained an installer [1] for these systems a while ago but the images may not be available anymore, not sure.

[0] https://www.linode.com/docs/tools-reference/custom-kernels-d...

[1] https://github.com/eatonphil/linode_deploy_experimental

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