On Thursday 24 January 2008 03:36:32 you wrote: > Does the network card PXE boot? That might work.. I'm not sure about > the USB boot things,but I'd love that to work too. >
Actually, I've found a way. First, you need to install a minimal OpenBSD system on the USB drive from another machine (basically, do a normal install choosing the USB drive instead of a hard drive as target), which will - obviously - make it bootable. I installed the bsd, bsd.rd, base and etc sets to play it safe, maybe it would work with less. Then, copy the sets on it if you don't have a network connection ready to go, boot from the USB drive, type "bsd.rd" at the boot prompt, voil` :) Firas > Firas Kraiem wrote: > > Greetings everyone :) > > > > So here's the deal, I have : > > > > -> An i386 machine with no floppy or CDROM drive that I'm willing > > to install OpenBSD on > > -> A nice and shiny 4.2 CD-set > > -> A 2 GB USB flash drive > > > > Because I'm stingy and I don't want to spend fifty bucks on an USB > > CDROM drive when installation is pretty much the only need I will > > have for it, I was wondering how I could turn my USB flash drive > > into an OpenBSD installation medium (it's of course very easy to > > copy the sets on it, but I can't figure out how to make it bootable > > afterwards). > > > > Any pointers about this will be much appreciated. > > > > Firas -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments GnuPG public key: http://itsuki.fkraiem.org/gpgkey
