On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 11:42:32PM +0000, Roderich wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jan 2016, Philip Guenther wrote: > > >>Unpacking base58.tgz with "tar xvzpf" is not enough to serve a diskless > >>machine, the missing files are necessary. > >> > >>What can I do? > > > >You could USE THE INSTALLER, instead of creating problems for yourself > >and wasting other people's time. > > I thank Ingo very much for his time writing one line. The diskless machine > is now running. > > Please, Guenther, tell me, how to use the installer to populate > a directory to serve a diskless machine. Please! > > Perhaps you help a lot of people, that like me, want to ocassionally > set up quickly a diskless machine only to make a test without risk > for a working machine. Or do you think, one must read the installer > script to do that? > > BTW, it seems, now is /etc/fstab necessary. > > And something like telnetd or sshd in the installers shell > can be very helpfull for making the kernel panic and save > the result of trace and ps. > > Regards > Rodrigo. >
What I've done in the past is to follow the FAQ for "Building a Release" (http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Release). It will leave DESTDIR with a base system that you can move to the correct location and modify for your diskless host. It's an alternative at least, if you are ok with building it yourself from sources. Cheers, -- Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri, Bioinformatics Developer, Uppsala, Sweden OpenPGP: url=https://db.tt/2zaB1E7y; id=46082BDF ------------------------------------------------------------------------
