Re: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

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From: Nick Holland <nick@...>

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

Date: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 12:21 pm

frantisek holop wrote:

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> 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 media...
>
> -f

see the referenced thread...

Prep the install device on another machine. Other machine just needs
a USB port, doesn't need to be bootable there or USB2 or anything else
fancy, as long as OpenBSD recognizes it.

Either that, or get me an eeepc so I can see what the existing
environment is and what the BIOS can do, then we might be able to give
you specific instructions to build a boot environment on the eeepc,
but it would be cheaper to just prep it on another machine. :)

(some people will say dd the floppy image onto the flash device, but
the functionality of that depends upon your BIOS's USB boot code.
'course, the functionality of my process assumes a non-broken USB
boot code in the BIOS, and I should know better).

Nick.

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booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom, frantisek holop, (Tue Jan 29, 9:59 am)

Re: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom, frantisek holop, (Thu Jan 31, 5:57 am)

Re: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom, Nick Holland, (Tue Jan 29, 10:45 am)

Re: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom, Richard Daemon, (Tue Jan 29, 3:15 pm)

Re: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom, Stefan Kell, (Tue Jan 29, 5:54 pm)

Re: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom, Richard Daemon, (Tue Jan 29, 11:31 pm)

Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom, Raimo Niskanen, (Wed Jan 30, 4:44 am)

Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom, Stefan Kell, (Wed Jan 30, 10:35 am)

Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom, Richard Daemon, (Wed Jan 30, 3:35 pm)

Re: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom, Stuart Henderson, (Tue Jan 29, 3:50 pm)

Re: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom, frantisek holop, (Tue Jan 29, 11:05 am)

Re: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom, Nick Holland, (Tue Jan 29, 12:21 pm)

Re: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom, frantisek holop, (Wed Jan 30, 8:16 am)

Re: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom, Stefan Kell, (Wed Jan 30, 10:29 am)

Re: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom, frantisek holop, (Thu Jan 31, 8:27 am)

Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom, Raimo Niskanen, (Thu Jan 31, 9:26 am)

Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom, frantisek holop, (Thu Jan 31, 11:40 am)

Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom, frantisek holop, (Mon Feb 4, 5:48 am)

Re: : : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom, Raimo Niskanen, (Mon Feb 4, 8:53 am)

Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom, Stefan Kell, (Thu Jan 31, 4:13 pm)

Re: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom, Richard Daemon, (Wed Jan 30, 3:39 pm)

Re: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom, frantisek holop, (Thu Jan 31, 4:46 am)

Re: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom, ropers, (Thu Jan 31, 7:27 pm)

Re: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom, frantisek holop, (Fri Feb 1, 7:31 am)

Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom, Raimo Niskanen, (Wed Jan 30, 10:50 am)

Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom, Stefan Kell, (Wed Jan 30, 5:51 pm)

Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom, Dennis Davis, (Wed Jan 30, 11:26 am)

Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom, Stefan Kell, (Wed Jan 30, 5:50 pm)

Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom, Stuart Henderson, (Wed Jan 30, 12:46 pm)

Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom, Andre Naehring, (Thu Jan 31, 6:02 am)

Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom, Richard Daemon, (Thu Jan 31, 9:18 am)

Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom, Andre Naehring, (Thu Jan 31, 9:29 am)

Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom, Richard Daemon, (Thu Jan 31, 5:52 pm)

Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom, Andre Naehring, (Fri Feb 1, 4:29 am)

Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom, Richard Daemon, (Fri Feb 1, 4:31 pm)

Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom, Stefan Kell, (Wed Jan 30, 5:47 pm)

Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom, Raimo Niskanen, (Wed Jan 30, 10:19 am)

Re: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom, Richard Daemon, (Wed Jan 30, 9:14 am)

Re: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom, Mark Mathias, (Tue Jan 29, 11:50 am)


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