On 6/20/22 11:47 AM, Étienne wrote:
Hello there,
This is a bit of a long shot, but I'm trying my luck: There used to be a
community thread on Scaleway's documentation website that explained how
to convert a Linux instance to an OpenBSD instance, because no OpenBSD
ISO image was available in their console. It seems that this doc
disappeared as their documentation section has changed format, and I
can't find it on archive.org either. I would like to try and apply the
same process at another VPS provider. Does anyone remember or know how
this was done, and would they be kind enough to summarise it here, please?
Thanks!
Assuming you have console and can do your own install, perhaps doing
a Linux install and leaving a chunk of the beginning of the "disk"
unallocated, then dd the minirootXX.img over the very beginning of
the "disk", then rebooting. This should get you into the OpenBSD
installer, assuming you actually overwrote the beginning of the
logical disk and not a Linux partition.
A hard reset or "power cycle" might work better than a reboot, as
you don't want the Linux system updating anything on the disk
partition tables after the dd is complete (if "reboot" even works
at that point).
However, you might want to think long and hard about committing to
a VPS that doesn't actively support the OS you wish to install. What
works today may faceplant tomorrow and they may not care at all to
fix it for you.
Nick.
