I have used UNetbootin http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ to build an
OpenBSD USB stick image from the OpenBSD ISO image. I don't remember
the exact details, but it was pretty straightforward. I built it on a
friend's XP machine but looks like there's a Linux version too.
--
Ron McDowell
San Antonio TX
shweg...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Ilya Ilembitov wrote:
Hi, all.
I have a pretty tricky challenge before me. My main (and only)
machine is a Lenovo Thinkpad X200s. The problem is that it doesn't
have an optical drive. Second problem is that I live in a dorn, so I
only have access to wireless connection, not wired. And I want to
install OpenBSD to a laptop that is currently running Debian Linux.
Googling didn't give me any proper answer. Turns out, nearly every
BSD favour (FreeBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly BSD) has either an image for
sticks or some straightawy script to get the job done. But not
OpenBSD. All I could find was: -involving a second machine running
OpenBSD for network installation -involving a second machine running
OpenBSD to create the flash using installboot and some other
BSD-specific tools.
Seems like in most cases people install OpenBSD on diskless laptops
when it comes to netbooks but not primary machines. Which is not my
case.
Is there a script of some sort that could convert an OpenBSD
install46.iso to an img file for a stick using some more common
(non-BSD specific) tools? The best howto I could find is this one:
http://www.azbsd.org/~marco/openbsd/flashkeyinstaller/ But it
involves installboot and some other tools that are not available on a
GNU system. What could I do? Or perhaps somebody could create and
host an image (with all the filesets for 4.6) or just put it on some
filehosting service? It's still just some 250-300 megs. -- wbr,
Ilembitov
I have a Thinkpad x200
Don't you have access to an external drive?
You could install OpenBSD in a virtual machine, and make up the usb
disk from there.
You could also try this
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
I think I used it to use gpart.
