On Thursday 24 January 2008 03:36:32 you wrote:
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> 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

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> 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



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