> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Heptas Torres <hepta...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 2/12/13, Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz> wrote: > >> On Feb 11 23:55:30, hepta...@gmail.com wrote: > >>> On 2/11/13, Jiri B <ji...@devio.us> wrote: > >>> > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:51:29PM +0000, Heptas Torres wrote: > >>> >> Hello > >>> >> I have an old laptop with no CD-ROM but can boot from USB. Given that > >>> >> I only have access to a windows machine to burn an iso image, do you > >>> >> know of an easy way (e.g. some windows programa) to create a bootable > >>> >> OpenBSD USB stick which I can then use to install OpenBSD on my old > >>> >> laptop? > >>> >> -heptas > >>> > > >>> > Install OpenBSD on your usb stick on this "Windows" machine, > >>> > >>> How to do that exactly from windows when I cannot boot OpenBSD on that > >>> machine? > >> > >> why can't you? > > > > because I don't have an OpenBSD booting media (the laptop has no > > CD-ROM, and I don't have bootable USB drive with OpenBSD - that's > > where I'm trying to get to). > > -heptas
But you do have CDROM on the windows box: > >>> >> I only have access to a windows machine to burn an iso image So boot the OpenBSD CD on this windows machine, and install OpenBSD onto a USB thumb. Then boot from that USB thumb on your laptop, and install OpenBSD on the laptop. Done.
