[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > Sorry for the noise but I am trying to install openbsd an an eeepc > via a usb pen. I have managed to install 4.(1 or 2) in the past but > do not seem to be able to get the 4.3 install to boot off a pen. I > know I could (hopefully) un-tar the files from the install4.3.iso > mounted with loopback on another *nix and copy the fs then configure > everything and dd the mbr (or something like that); the closest i > have got is a kernel panic saying boot too old upgrade when I try > to boot bsd.rd via grub. But is there an easier way (without buying > a usb cdrom) to boot the usb pen as a install source.... > or take any action in reliance on its content.
quit making life hard on yourself. 1) grub won't help you. 2) stick USB flash drive in another computer 3) Install (minimal?) OpenBSD on it (sd0, PROBABLY). 3a optional) Copy over install files 4) stick USB flash drive in target computer. 5) Boot from it 6) At boot> prompt, type "bsd.rd" 7) ta-da. Note that the config machine doesn't even need to be USB-bootable to make this flash drive, though it must be to test the results. Yes, that's more of an install than you NEED, but if you gotta ask "how", that's what you want to do, and the above process works on just about anything that can boot from USB. Besides, the finished flash drive is wonderfully useful. :) (I've got a 4G, partitioned out as 2G OpenBSD, 2G FAT32, which is bootable on OpenBSD and still usable as a Windows flash drive, as well. Only problem I have is I keep buying the super-cheap flash drives which work great until you sit on them.) (the "proper" solution is to boot OpenBSD (inc. off a CDROM or floppy), partition and format the media, install MBR, install kernel, install /boot, install PBR. If you can do that without error, you can probably skip the OpenBSD install script, just manually copy files onto your target machine. i.e., not worth the effort, probably. I know how to do it, and I rarely do so without error). Nick.
