On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Raimo Niskanen wrote:

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> From: Raimo Niskanen <raimo+openbsd@erix.ericsson.se>
> To: misc@openbsd.org
> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:50:30 +0100
> Subject: Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

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> > Anyway, OpenBSD will boot but ethernet does not work: The wired
> > adapter is not suppoerted, and the wireless driver reports an
> > error and does not work :-(
>
> Then one could create such a bootable image and throw in the file
> sets too, that is: most of the /4.2/i386 download directory except
> install42.iso, but the size would be about 250 MByte.
>
> If the ethernet adapters does not work, what is the use?

"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.
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