Introduction Not many Virtual Private Server (VPS) providers consider FreeBSD a first-class citizen, and few encourage you to encrypt your hard drive from inside the VPS. Though encrypting a VPS hard drive does not protect against everything and requires one to access the web KVM of the provider to type in a password on each reboot, I still find it reassuring. You need a little know-how to be able to set up FreeBSD in a not so friendly environment. There are several procedures to achieve this floating around the Internet, but I found those either too complicated or out of date. This article presents my preferred way to install a FreeBSD operating system on a provider that does not officially support it, and it works even for other unsupported operating systems. Install a Linux system to inspect the pre-provisioned VPS Depending on your provider, you will want to prepare either a BIOS boot image (for example at OVH) or a UEFI boot image (for example on Azure or on Oracle Cloud). One…
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