Thanks! Indeed, Dan has a point here as e.g. with hetzner you can easily ask for an .iso to add for your machine and use that for installation.
With the .img format you need to use the rescue console, dd the .img yourself and restart which is effort. So, I would welcome an .iso, too if possible and align with other archs? Am 23. Okt. 2023, 21:08, um 21:08, Ampie Niemand <am...@sshfct.za.net> schrieb: >On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 07:27:18PM +0200, Robert Palm wrote: >> As this list is not very active I forward your mail to misc@ >> >> Am 21. Okt. 2023, 16:59, um 16:59, Dan <fug...@the-fastest.net> >schrieb: >> >Hi folks, >> > >> >Is there a technical reason why the project is not providing >> >installation ISOs for the arm64 architecture? > >I'm pretty sure install74.img and miniroot74.img is provided instead. >The idea is that you 'burn' that to a USB stick / thumb drive and boot >with >that. I think that this category initially had mostly Pi's so there was >no >need for CDROMs. > >> > >> >The easiest way to install OpenBSD on a new cloud virtual machine >for >> >me would be to mount cd74.iso and boot. >> > >> >Could someone give me some pointers for turning the arm bsd.rd >> >installation ramdisk kernel into a minimal CD-ROM image? >> > >> > >> >Thank you, >> >Dan >> > >-Ampie
