Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-02-04 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 04:40:58PM +0100, frantisek holop said that hmm, on Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 02:26:17PM +0100, Raimo Niskanen said that Since you probably will need the install sets as well, I have posted a compressed filesystem image of size 199864838 bytes at

Re: : : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-02-04 Thread Raimo Niskanen
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 10:48:15AM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 04:40:58PM +0100, frantisek holop said that hmm, on Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 02:26:17PM +0100, Raimo Niskanen said that Since you probably will need the install sets as well, I have posted a

Re: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-02-02 Thread Niels de Vos
frantisek holop minusf at obiit.org writes: i had a nother idea today, the eee comes with grub... the more knowledgable are already holding their heads :] because i dont have the boot sector and /boot, i thought grub could maybe load bsd.rd but all i got was the 'boot too old' message

Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-02-01 Thread Andre Naehring
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Richard Daemon wrote: If you do test with standard release, please let me know the results, especially if it's on a standard PC - I'm out of systems to test with... :-( Here it comes, the following dmesg is again from eee, installed an original 4.2 from cd on the usb

Re: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-02-01 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 12:27:55AM +0100, ropers said that Hopefully this info helps you in your migration from Linux to OpenBSD. ;-P ;-) thans for the research... i am by no means a linux head, and i find their (eee xandros) man pages ... painful to read. so making kernels is way out of

Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-02-01 Thread Richard Daemon
On Feb 1, 2008 3:29 AM, Andre Naehring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Richard Daemon wrote: If you do test with standard release, please let me know the results, especially if it's on a standard PC - I'm out of systems to test with... :-( Here it comes, the following dmesg

Re: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-01-31 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 02:39:41PM -0500, Richard Daemon said that Does the system support PXE booting? I don't believe it matters (for PXE booting that is) if it's not supported by OpenBSD. If so, then maybe you could PXE boot and install OpenBSD onto the USB media that way? as far as i

Re: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-01-31 Thread frantisek holop
i had a nother idea today, the eee comes with grub... the more knowledgable are already holding their heads :] because i dont have the boot sector and /boot, i thought grub could maybe load bsd.rd but all i got was the 'boot too old' message well known from the archives. it was worth a shot...

Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-01-31 Thread Andre Naehring
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2008/01/30 15:26, Dennis Davis wrote: wireless driver reports an error and does not work is short on detail. It might just be that non-free firmware needs installing (eg the firmware for the iwi driver) to get it to work. people with Eee PC

Re: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-01-31 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 03:29:46PM +0100, Stefan Kell said that flashboot, see http://www.mindrot.org/projects/flashboot/;. There are binary images available at http://tilde.se/flashboot/;. zcat GENERIC-RD.image | dd of=/dev/sd0 under Linux on the eee should give you a bootable

Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-01-31 Thread Richard Daemon
On Jan 31, 2008 5:02 AM, Andre Naehring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2008/01/30 15:26, Dennis Davis wrote: wireless driver reports an error and does not work is short on detail. It might just be that non-free firmware needs installing (eg

Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-01-31 Thread Raimo Niskanen
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 01:27:46PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 03:29:46PM +0100, Stefan Kell said that flashboot, see http://www.mindrot.org/projects/flashboot/;. There are binary images available at http://tilde.se/flashboot/;. zcat GENERIC-RD.image | dd

Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-01-31 Thread Andre Naehring
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Richard Daemon wrote: Did you have to do boot boot -a to get it to boot properly off of sd0a, recompile kernel or something else? When I try, I never get it to see root on sd0a swap on sd0b dump on sd0b by itself, at least without boot -a or a kernel recompile... By

Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-01-31 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 02:26:17PM +0100, Raimo Niskanen said that Since you probably will need the install sets as well, I have posted a compressed filesystem image of size 199864838 bytes at http://www.erlang.org/~raimo/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386/hd.fs.gz It contains the same as

Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-01-31 Thread Stefan Kell
Hello, On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 02:26:17PM +0100, Raimo Niskanen said that Since you probably will need the install sets as well, I have posted a compressed filesystem image of size 199864838 bytes at

Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-01-31 Thread Richard Daemon
On Jan 31, 2008 8:29 AM, Andre Naehring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Richard Daemon wrote: Did you have to do boot boot -a to get it to boot properly off of sd0a, recompile kernel or something else? When I try, I never get it to see root on sd0a swap on sd0b dump on

Re: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-01-31 Thread ropers
On 31/01/2008, frantisek holop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nevertheless, the previous post very well pointed out that i will need to work with ffs from linux, and i dont know anything about that, not even if it is supported. Like most BSDs, OpenBSD uses the Berkeley Fast File System. By default,

Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-01-30 Thread Raimo Niskanen
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 10:31:28PM -0500, Richard Daemon wrote: ... But of course you have boot -a at the boot prompt for selecting the root device. And I want to try the same the next days :-) Regards Stefan Kell That brings up another question, hopefully there's an answer...

Re: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-01-30 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:21:40AM -0500, Nick Holland said that frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:45:27AM -0500, Nick Holland said that (short version: just do a normal install to the flash disk) how do i boot bsd.rd to make an install to the flash disk? chicken

Re: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-01-30 Thread Richard Daemon
On Jan 30, 2008 7:16 AM, frantisek holop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hmm, on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:21:40AM -0500, Nick Holland said that frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:45:27AM -0500, Nick Holland said that (short version: just do a normal install to the flash disk)

Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-01-30 Thread Raimo Niskanen
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 01:16:11PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:21:40AM -0500, Nick Holland said that frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:45:27AM -0500, Nick Holland said that (short version: just do a normal install to the flash disk)

Re: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-01-30 Thread Stefan Kell
Hello, On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:21:40AM -0500, Nick Holland said that frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:45:27AM -0500, Nick Holland said that (short version: just do a normal install to the flash disk) how do i boot

Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-01-30 Thread Stefan Kell
Hello, On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Raimo Niskanen wrote: On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 10:31:28PM -0500, Richard Daemon wrote: ... But of course you have boot -a at the boot prompt for selecting the root device. And I want to try the same the next days :-) Regards Stefan Kell That brings up another

Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-01-30 Thread Raimo Niskanen
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 03:29:46PM +0100, Stefan Kell wrote: Hello, On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:21:40AM -0500, Nick Holland said that frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:45:27AM -0500, Nick Holland said that (short

Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-01-30 Thread Dennis Davis
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Raimo Niskanen wrote: From: Raimo Niskanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: misc@openbsd.org Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:50:30 +0100 Subject: Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom ... Anyway, OpenBSD will boot but ethernet does not work: The wired adapter is not suppoerted

Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-01-30 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008/01/30 15:26, Dennis Davis wrote: wireless driver reports an error and does not work is short on detail. It might just be that non-free firmware needs installing (eg the firmware for the iwi driver) to get it to work. people with Eee PC need to test -current snapshots, the wd/wdc

Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-01-30 Thread Richard Daemon
On Jan 30, 2008 9:35 AM, Stefan Kell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Raimo Niskanen wrote: On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 10:31:28PM -0500, Richard Daemon wrote: ... But of course you have boot -a at the boot prompt for selecting the root device. And I want to try the

Re: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-01-30 Thread Richard Daemon
On Jan 30, 2008 9:29 AM, Stefan Kell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:21:40AM -0500, Nick Holland said that frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:45:27AM -0500, Nick Holland said that (short

Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-01-30 Thread Stefan Kell
Thanks for that info, I will check how -current works on the eee, if I got some time for this. Regards Stefan Kell Original-Nachricht Datum: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:46:22 + Von: Stuart Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: misc@openbsd.org Betreff: Re: : booting openbsd on eee

Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-01-30 Thread Stefan Kell
Hello Denis, Original-Nachricht Datum: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:26:17 + (GMT) Von: Dennis Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: misc@openbsd.org Betreff: Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Raimo Niskanen wrote: From: Raimo Niskanen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-01-30 Thread Stefan Kell
Original-Nachricht Datum: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:50:30 +0100 Von: Raimo Niskanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: misc@openbsd.org Betreff: Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 03:29:46PM +0100, Stefan Kell wrote: Hello, On Wed, 30 Jan 2008

Re: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-01-29 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:45:27AM -0500, Nick Holland said that (short version: just do a normal install to the flash disk) how do i boot bsd.rd to make an install to the flash disk? chicken egg. i dont have an usb cdrom, nor floppy disk. only usb media. i need to create a bootable usb

Re: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-01-29 Thread Nick Holland
frantisek holop wrote: hi there, i was wondering if some of the boot sector/fdisk magicians out there could lend me a hand in booting openbsd on the eee without access to a cd-rom drive. what i need is basically advice how to handcraft a boot sector on an usb media with a snapshot for the boot

booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-01-29 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, i was wondering if some of the boot sector/fdisk magicians out there could lend me a hand in booting openbsd on the eee without access to a cd-rom drive. what i need is basically advice how to handcraft a boot sector on an usb media with a snapshot for the boot process to pick it up

Re: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-01-29 Thread Nick Holland
frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:45:27AM -0500, Nick Holland said that (short version: just do a normal install to the flash disk) how do i boot bsd.rd to make an install to the flash disk? chicken egg. i dont have an usb cdrom, nor floppy disk. only usb media. i need

Re: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-01-29 Thread Mark Mathias
On Jan 29, 2008 10:05 AM, frantisek holop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hmm, on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:45:27AM -0500, Nick Holland said that (short version: just do a normal install to the flash disk) how do i boot bsd.rd to make an install to the flash disk? chicken egg. i dont have an usb

Re: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-01-29 Thread Richard Daemon
see recent thread, Install OpenBSD from USB. Don't believe all of of what people said. :) (short version: just do a normal install to the flash disk) Nick. Speaking of which, can a default install on USB Flash work and fully boot a generic bsd kernel ok, or needs to boot bsd.rd or similar?

Re: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-01-29 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008/01/29 14:15, Richard Daemon wrote: see recent thread, Install OpenBSD from USB. Don't believe all of of what people said. :) (short version: just do a normal install to the flash disk) Nick. Speaking of which, can a default install on USB Flash work and fully boot a generic

Re: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-01-29 Thread Stefan Kell
Hi, Original-Nachricht Datum: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:15:20 -0500 Von: Richard Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: misc@openbsd.org Betreff: Re: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom see recent thread, Install OpenBSD from USB. Don't believe all

Re: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-01-29 Thread Richard Daemon
... But of course you have boot -a at the boot prompt for selecting the root device. And I want to try the same the next days :-) Regards Stefan Kell That brings up another question, hopefully there's an answer... rather than having to do boot -a (even from boot.conf) and be present to