On Tuesday 27 February 2007 14:25, Peter wrote:
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> Le Mardi 27 Fivrier 2007 14:34, Darren Spruell a icrit :
> > On 2/27/07, Peter <pmatulis@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> > > I'm looking for comments from people who have installed OpenBSD 4.0
> > > as a Virtualbox guest.  I am currently running Virtualbox 1.3.6 on
> > > Gentoo Linux 2006.1.  The manual does not mention OBSD as guest
> > > even though their website states that it is possible.  My main
> > > question is how to create an OBSD image since it seems that I need
> > > an ISO image.
> >
> > You can't boot off of your CDROM?
> >
> > As for images, you can installer images in CDROM format and floppy
> > format off of the FTP mirrors.
>
> Are you talking about the "install ISO's" like cdrom.iso or floppy.iso?
> If so, yes, I can use them.  I thought I needed a full-blown release
> ISO.
>
> I am also stuck at launching the virtualbox interface itself.  I get
> either a segmentation fault if started using a non-priv user or
> an 'authentication rejected' error if I 'su -c virtualbox'.  I have
> tried the usual trick of 'xhost +' as the non-priv user and then su to
> root and 'virtualbox' but I get the 'cannot connect to X server' stuff.
> Any help appreciated.  I am dying to boot up OBSD on this thing.
>
> PM
>

dd if=/dev/cdrom of=openbsd40.iso

OR 

cat /dev/cdrom > openbsd40.iso

(assuming you have the OpenBSD CD in the CDROM drive)






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