On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Heptas Torres <hepta...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2/12/13, Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz> wrote: >> On Feb 11 23:55:30, hepta...@gmail.com wrote: >>> On 2/11/13, Jiri B <ji...@devio.us> wrote: >>> > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:51:29PM +0000, Heptas Torres wrote: >>> >> Hello >>> >> I have an old laptop with no CD-ROM but can boot from USB. Given that >>> >> I only have access to a windows machine to burn an iso image, do you >>> >> know of an easy way (e.g. some windows programa) to create a bootable >>> >> OpenBSD USB stick which I can then use to install OpenBSD on my old >>> >> laptop? >>> >> -heptas >>> > >>> > Install OpenBSD on your usb stick on this "Windows" machine, >>> >>> How to do that exactly from windows when I cannot boot OpenBSD on that >>> machine? >> >> why can't you? > > because I don't have an OpenBSD booting media (the laptop has no > CD-ROM, and I don't have bootable USB drive with OpenBSD - that's > where I'm trying to get to). > -heptas >
install qemu (does it run on windows?) or virtualbox, boot the official iso on it, mount usbkey from the qemu obsd instance, install to that that gives you a bootable usbkey with openbsd on it without having to possess more than one system and without buying an optical drive there's been many threads like these in the past btw. whatever
