Re: bootable OpenBSD USB stick from windows?
Another option is to use syslinux and memdisk to boot the cdxx.iso image, then copy the source tarballs and INSTALL.arch onto the thumb drive and go from there. On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Matthias Appel appel.matth...@gmail.comwrote: Am 13.02.2013 19:14, schrieb Hugo Osvaldo Barrera: $20 may sound cheap to you, but that's not cheap in every part of the world, especially for a device you'll use only ONCE to install the OS. It's 2013, and buying floppies/optical drives isn't the best of advices. What's wrong PXE? If 20$ is too much to spend for OP, I would like to donate a working USB slimline CD/DVD drive, which I don't use anymore(working, of course!). The only two conditions are: *Snail-mailing the drive does not cost a fortune. *If I am in his part of the world, or he is in my part of it, he has to pay me a pint of beer. *Only valid for OPdon't come knocking for free DVD drives ;-) I am not able to contribute very much to the OpenBSD community, but if this is what I can do to have another user using OpenBSD, I would be glad to do so! Regards, Matthias -- Aaron Mason - Programmer, open source addict I've taken my software vows - for beta or for worse
Re: bootable OpenBSD USB stick from windows?
Am 13.02.2013 19:14, schrieb Hugo Osvaldo Barrera: $20 may sound cheap to you, but that's not cheap in every part of the world, especially for a device you'll use only ONCE to install the OS. It's 2013, and buying floppies/optical drives isn't the best of advices. What's wrong PXE? If 20$ is too much to spend for OP, I would like to donate a working USB slimline CD/DVD drive, which I don't use anymore(working, of course!). The only two conditions are: *Snail-mailing the drive does not cost a fortune. *If I am in his part of the world, or he is in my part of it, he has to pay me a pint of beer. *Only valid for OPdon't come knocking for free DVD drives ;-) I am not able to contribute very much to the OpenBSD community, but if this is what I can do to have another user using OpenBSD, I would be glad to do so! Regards, Matthias
Re: bootable OpenBSD USB stick from windows? [OT]
Am 20.02.2013 02:45, schrieb sven falempin: If 20$ is too much to spend for OP, I would like to donate a working USB slimline CD/DVD drive, which I don't use anymore(working, of course!). The only two conditions are: *Snail-mailing the drive does not cost a fortune. *If I am in his part of the world, or he is in my part of it, he has to pay me a pint of beer. *Only valid for OPdon't come knocking for free DVD drives ;-) I am not able to contribute very much to the OpenBSD community, but if this is what I can do to have another user using OpenBSD, I would be glad to do so! Regards, Matthias i am pretty sure usb key cost less than beer somewhere :-) Challenge accepted: http://www.e-tec.at/frame1/details.php?art=42888 http://www.josef.co.at/JosefNeu/Web/pdf/Getr%C3%A4nkeangebot.pdf (Just look beneath OFFENE BIERE) And I am talking about *beer* not yellow coloured water :-P And yeah, OK...2nd condition of the deal is opt-out, of course (hence the low possibility of meeting somewhere, anyway) Cheers, Matthias
Re: bootable OpenBSD USB stick from windows? [OT]
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 9:31 PM, Matthias Appel appel.matth...@gmail.comwrote: Am 20.02.2013 02:45, schrieb sven falempin: If 20$ is too much to spend for OP, I would like to donate a working USB slimline CD/DVD drive, which I don't use anymore(working, of course!). The only two conditions are: *Snail-mailing the drive does not cost a fortune. *If I am in his part of the world, or he is in my part of it, he has to pay me a pint of beer. *Only valid for OPdon't come knocking for free DVD drives ;-) I am not able to contribute very much to the OpenBSD community, but if this is what I can do to have another user using OpenBSD, I would be glad to do so! Regards, Matthias i am pretty sure usb key cost less than beer somewhere :-) Challenge accepted: http://www.e-tec.at/frame1/details.php?art=42888 http://www.josef.co.at/JosefNeu/Web/pdf/Getr%C3%A4nkeangebot.pdf (Just look beneath OFFENE BIERE) And I am talking about *beer* not yellow coloured water :-P And yeah, OK...2nd condition of the deal is opt-out, of course (hence the low possibility of meeting somewhere, anyway) Cheers, Matthias 4 hours to go , place your bet (shipping is a pain though) http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Design-Handgun-Shaped-8GB-USB-2-0-Flash-Memory-Pen-Drive-Stick-Thumb-/330876107090?pt=US_USB_Flash_Driveshash=item4d09c0b952 -- - () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\
Re: bootable OpenBSD USB stick from windows?
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 5:57 PM, MichaÅ Markowski markows...@gmail.comwrote: As Otto suggested: try PXE, it's relatively simple. http://openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#PXE You can also write this i386 image to your flash disk using dd: http://devio.us/~doc/openbsd52_usb/ (done as in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.tech/30048) With two USB and the floppy install you can do it :-) cygwin has dd, use /dev/sdX as a target not \\.\Physi would be awesome to have ffs driver for windows though ^_^ and disklable My last laptop is only UEFI boot :( IMHO installXX.iso is deprecated and should be installXX.dd for USB key -- MichaÅ Markowski -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\
Re: bootable OpenBSD USB stick from windows?
On 2013-02-12 10:17, Scott McEachern wrote: On 02/12/13 08:10, Heptas Torres wrote: On 2/12/13, Jan Stary h...@stare.cz wrote: On Feb 11 23:48:09, hepta...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/11/13, christopher sasarak chris.sasa...@gmail.com wrote: I had a similar situation with my laptop and found a solution in the FAQ: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#flashmemLive Essentially what I had to do was boot from CD on the desktop system (using an ISO for the desktop system's architecture) That assumes that my windows machine can boot from a CD which is not the case (I have no CD-ROM neither on my windows machine nor on the machine where I want to install OpenBSD). I only have access to a windows machine to burn an iso image, do you How do you do it then, exactly? In case of Linux images with one of the tools I mentioned in one of my previous messages. -h Oh for pete's sake, it's 2013. Go to your local computer store and spend (at most) $20 dollars on an optical drive. Install the damn thing on your Winbox, follow the many directions already posted here, and be done with it. It's not rocket surgery and optical drives really do come in handy. And they're dirt cheap. Or, save the $20 and install VirtualBox like people have suggested. Just end this stupid thread because you're talking in circles. $20 may sound cheap to you, but that's not cheap in every part of the world, especially for a device you'll use only ONCE to install the OS. It's 2013, and buying floppies/optical drives isn't the best of advices. What's wrong PXE? -- Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
Re: bootable OpenBSD USB stick from windows?
2013/2/13 Christer Solskogen christer.solsko...@gmail.com: But they are not official. Of course, but it works for now. I know that some linux distributions (like Ubuntu, Fedora and Arch Linux) have some kind of a special iso that is both dd-able to a USB stick and writable to a CD/DVD. Most of them now have, as far as I know. How it generally works: http://wiki.geteasypeasy.com/Hybrid_ISO/IMG_format USB ports in machines are very common nowadays, CD drives not so much anymore, so such official disk image with just bootloader + bsd.rd inside could come in handy. -- Michał Markowski
Re: bootable OpenBSD USB stick from windows?
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:56 PM, Michał Markowski markows...@gmail.com wrote: Most of them now have, as far as I know. How it generally works: http://wiki.geteasypeasy.com/Hybrid_ISO/IMG_format USB ports in machines are very common nowadays, CD drives not so much anymore, so such official disk image with just bootloader + bsd.rd inside could come in handy. I'll be willing to donate some cash to get someone to do that for OpenBSD if there are anyone up for the task. -- chs,
Re: bootable OpenBSD USB stick from windows?
On 02/13/13 13:14, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: On 2013-02-12 10:17, Scott McEachern wrote: Oh for pete's sake, it's 2013. Go to your local computer store and spend (at most) $20 dollars on an optical drive. Install the damn thing on your Winbox, follow the many directions already posted here, and be done with it. It's not rocket surgery and optical drives really do come in handy. And they're dirt cheap. Or, save the $20 and install VirtualBox like people have suggested. Just end this stupid thread because you're talking in circles. $20 may sound cheap to you, but that's not cheap in every part of the world, especially for a device you'll use only ONCE to install the OS. It's 2013, and buying floppies/optical drives isn't the best of advices. Right. And an optical drive on a Windows box will *never* be used again. And it could never be repurposed on another machine. What a complete waste of money. Silly me; bad advice. Fine, $20 is the difference between him paying the rent or eating. I get it. But like I reminded him, there are free options already suggested by the list and he's done what with that advice? What's wrong PXE? Nothing. I had to use it earlier today myself on a machine with no CDROM that couldn't boot from USB. (Sound familiar?) But that's also assuming that his machine is capable of PXE, and the OP hasn't said anything about it. (My bad, maybe he did and it's one of the messages in this thread I skipped.) My point still stands: He's been given advice six ways through Sunday on how to accomplish this task, both free and non-free, he's also been pointed to the archives and yet this thread lives on. Like I said, talking in circles now. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca
Re: bootable OpenBSD USB stick from windows?
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 +, 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?
Re: bootable OpenBSD USB stick from windows?
On Feb 11 23:48:09, hepta...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/11/13, christopher sasarak chris.sasa...@gmail.com wrote: I had a similar situation with my laptop and found a solution in the FAQ: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#flashmemLive Essentially what I had to do was boot from CD on the desktop system (using an ISO for the desktop system's architecture) That assumes that my windows machine can boot from a CD which is not the case (I have no CD-ROM neither on my windows machine nor on the machine where I want to install OpenBSD). I only have access to a windows machine to burn an iso image, do you How do you do it then, exactly?
Re: bootable OpenBSD USB stick from windows?
On 2/12/13, Maximo Pech mak...@gmail.com wrote: 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 I think you should ask this on a windows-centric place. Well I guess not many write tools in Windows for OpenBSD... I was looking for tools like http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/, http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/, http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/ that would work with OpenBSD images (basically something like select image, select USB drive, burn, and boot), but they only work for Linux. As far as I see from this thread there are no such tools that work for creating bootable USB disks from windows. Anyways, some good tips were mentioned on this thread to address the issue. -heptas
Re: bootable OpenBSD USB stick from windows?
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 +, 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
Re: bootable OpenBSD USB stick from windows?
On 2/12/13, Jan Stary h...@stare.cz wrote: On Feb 11 23:48:09, hepta...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/11/13, christopher sasarak chris.sasa...@gmail.com wrote: I had a similar situation with my laptop and found a solution in the FAQ: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#flashmemLive Essentially what I had to do was boot from CD on the desktop system (using an ISO for the desktop system's architecture) That assumes that my windows machine can boot from a CD which is not the case (I have no CD-ROM neither on my windows machine nor on the machine where I want to install OpenBSD). I only have access to a windows machine to burn an iso image, do you How do you do it then, exactly? In case of Linux images with one of the tools I mentioned in one of my previous messages. -h
Re: bootable OpenBSD USB stick from windows?
On 02/12/13 08:10, Heptas Torres wrote: On 2/12/13, Jan Stary h...@stare.cz wrote: On Feb 11 23:48:09, hepta...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/11/13, christopher sasarak chris.sasa...@gmail.com wrote: I had a similar situation with my laptop and found a solution in the FAQ: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#flashmemLive Essentially what I had to do was boot from CD on the desktop system (using an ISO for the desktop system's architecture) That assumes that my windows machine can boot from a CD which is not the case (I have no CD-ROM neither on my windows machine nor on the machine where I want to install OpenBSD). I only have access to a windows machine to burn an iso image, do you How do you do it then, exactly? In case of Linux images with one of the tools I mentioned in one of my previous messages. -h Oh for pete's sake, it's 2013. Go to your local computer store and spend (at most) $20 dollars on an optical drive. Install the damn thing on your Winbox, follow the many directions already posted here, and be done with it. It's not rocket surgery and optical drives really do come in handy. And they're dirt cheap. Or, save the $20 and install VirtualBox like people have suggested. Just end this stupid thread because you're talking in circles. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca
Re: bootable OpenBSD USB stick from windows?
Heptas Torres 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 +, 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 If you want it easy and simple, just buy a USB floppy drive and one disk - why make it more complicated? Best regards, Mikkel C. Simonsen
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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 +, 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
Re: bootable OpenBSD USB stick from windows?
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 +, 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 But you do have CDROM on the windows box: I only have access to a windows machine to burn an iso image So boot the OpenBSD CD on this windows machine, and install OpenBSD onto a USB thumb. Then boot from that USB thumb on your laptop, and install OpenBSD on the laptop. Done.
Re: bootable OpenBSD USB stick from windows?
As Otto suggested: try PXE, it's relatively simple. http://openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#PXE You can also write this i386 image to your flash disk using dd: http://devio.us/~doc/openbsd52_usb/ (done as in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.tech/30048) -- Michał Markowski
Re: bootable OpenBSD USB stick from windows?
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:57 PM, Michał Markowski markows...@gmail.com wrote: As Otto suggested: try PXE, it's relatively simple. http://openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#PXE UEFI machine may have a problem doing that. At least Macbooks and Lenovo with secure boot enabled. You can also write this i386 image to your flash disk using dd: http://devio.us/~doc/openbsd52_usb/ (done as in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.tech/30048) But they are not official. I know that some linux distributions (like Ubuntu, Fedora and Arch Linux) have some kind of a special iso that is both dd-able to a USB stick and writable to a CD/DVD. I don't have the technical knowledge of how that works or how to implement it, nor if its secure enough for OpenBSD. But if somebody do, maybe the people that wants it so much can donate a fistful of dollars to get that implemented? -- chs,
bootable OpenBSD USB stick from windows?
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
Re: bootable OpenBSD USB stick from windows?
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:51:29PM +, 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, copy tarballs to this OpenBSD installation, plug your stick to other machine, boot ramdisk from usb stick, load tarballs from usb stick, you are done. jirib
Re: bootable OpenBSD USB stick from windows?
I had a similar situation with my laptop and found a solution in the FAQ: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#flashmemLive Essentially what I had to do was boot from CD on the desktop system (using an ISO for the desktop system's architecture) and then do an install of OpenBSD onto the flash drive. After that, you can boot into the system from the flash drive and then download the bsd.rd file for the architecture of the laptop you want to install on from pub/OpenBSD/RELEASE/ARCH/bsd.rd and save it to the root directory of the flash drive install. Then boot from the flash drive on the laptop, when the boot prompt comes up, enter the name of the bsd.rd that you downloaded and boot into the installer. On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Heptas Torres hepta...@gmail.com 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 -- -Christopher Sasarak
Re: bootable OpenBSD USB stick from windows?
On 2/11/13, christopher sasarak chris.sasa...@gmail.com wrote: I had a similar situation with my laptop and found a solution in the FAQ: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#flashmemLive Essentially what I had to do was boot from CD on the desktop system (using an ISO for the desktop system's architecture) That assumes that my windows machine can boot from a CD which is not the case (I have no CD-ROM neither on my windows machine nor on the machine where I want to install OpenBSD). heptas and then do an install of OpenBSD onto the flash drive. After that, you can boot into the system from the flash drive and then download the bsd.rd file for the architecture of the laptop you want to install on from pub/OpenBSD/RELEASE/ARCH/bsd.rd and save it to the root directory of the flash drive install. Then boot from the flash drive on the laptop, when the boot prompt comes up, enter the name of the bsd.rd that you downloaded and boot into the installer. On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Heptas Torres hepta...@gmail.com 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 -- -Christopher Sasarak
Re: bootable OpenBSD USB stick from windows?
On 2/11/13, Jiri B ji...@devio.us wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:51:29PM +, 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? -hepta copy tarballs to this OpenBSD installation, plug your stick to other machine, boot ramdisk from usb stick, load tarballs from usb stick, you are done. jirib
Re: bootable OpenBSD USB stick from windows?
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 I think you should ask this on a windows-centric place.
Re: bootable OpenBSD USB stick from windows?
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:51:29PM +, 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 Hi Heptas, Use vmware/qemu/any other similar software to install openbsd to your usb stick. install52.iso can be used to boot your virtual machine. Then copy everything in http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.2/amd64/ to, say, /5.2/amd64/ on the same usb drive. (Do not forget to choose the right architecture, version and mirror). Just that. You can use that drive as install media or as your primary working system, if you wish. To use it as install media, enter bsd.rd at the boot prompt. P.S. FAQ on the website and man pages are highly recommended and useful. Read them before you start experimenting with OpenBSD. Best regards, Alex
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For Windows, VirtualBox is free and should do the trick. You'll probably need the extension pack. https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads -Stuart On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 01:53:46PM +1300, m...@extensibl.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:51:29PM +, 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 Hi Heptas, Use vmware/qemu/any other similar software to install openbsd to your usb stick. install52.iso can be used to boot your virtual machine. Then copy everything in http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.2/amd64/ to, say, /5.2/amd64/ on the same usb drive. (Do not forget to choose the right architecture, version and mirror). Just that. You can use that drive as install media or as your primary working system, if you wish. To use it as install media, enter bsd.rd at the boot prompt. P.S. FAQ on the website and man pages are highly recommended and useful. Read them before you start experimenting with OpenBSD. Best regards, Alex
Re: bootable OpenBSD USB stick from windows?
On 2/11/2013 5:51 PM, 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 If windows has something like dd, maybe you can write the floppy image to your usb.
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Apparently Someone has written one http://www.chrysocome.net/dd On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 08:02:13PM -0500, brian wrote: On 2/11/2013 5:51 PM, 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 If windows has something like dd, maybe you can write the floppy image to your usb. -- Stuart McMurray
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On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:55:30PM +, Heptas Torres wrote: On 2/11/13, Jiri B ji...@devio.us wrote: 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? If the laptop has a floppy drive, you can rawrite floppy52.fs to a floppy disk. The FTP mirrors have rawrite.exe in /pub/OpenBSD/5.2/tools. Otherwise maybe you could try rawriting bsd.rd to a USB stick. Nicolai
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Hi, I often used the virtualbox way. Extension pack may not be needed. The way is ( vbox faqs-vbox raw disk access-hd file pointing to usb stick- and ready to go). I also used this setup for creating an openbsd mfs usb livestick.works perfect
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On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 09:05:13PM -0600, Nicolai wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:55:30PM +, Heptas Torres wrote: On 2/11/13, Jiri B ji...@devio.us wrote: 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? If the laptop has a floppy drive, you can rawrite floppy52.fs to a floppy disk. The FTP mirrors have rawrite.exe in /pub/OpenBSD/5.2/tools. Otherwise maybe you could try rawriting bsd.rd to a USB stick. Nicolai Don't forget netbooting. Most of the pc class machines can do that these days. -Otto
