On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 05:28:29PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2007/01/26 07:12, smith wrote: > > Is there a way to install an image file from a server to a computer using a > > cd > > that was burned with OpenBSD's cd40.iso? > > > > put |"dd if=/dev/rwd0c bs=64k" imagefilename > > very similar: > get imagefilename |"dd of=/dev/rwd0c bs=64k" But ... whether this is useful will depend on the architecture, and the Cylinder/Head/Sector translation done by each computer's IDE/ATA drive electronics, and by each computer's BIOS. The worst-case-scenario is older i386 platforms.
Smith should see "Geometry Translation" in boot_i386(8).
