What are remote install options on a cheap vps?

2011-06-07 Thread Benjamin Nadland
I got a cheap VPS without out-of-band access (only ssh or similar) and wanted to install OpenBSD on it. According to the archives yaifo would be an option in this case, but the last version seems to be a year old and doesn't compile for me (with 4.8-release). The yaifo mailing list seems

Re: What are remote install options on a cheap vps?

2011-06-07 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 15:56:44 +0200 Benjamin Nadland wrote: I got a cheap VPS without out-of-band access (only ssh or similar) and wanted to install OpenBSD on it. According to the archives yaifo would be an option in this case, but the last version seems to be a year old and doesn't compile

Re: What are remote install options on a cheap vps?

2011-06-07 Thread Mark Solocinski
On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 15:56:44 +0200, Benjamin Nadland wrote: I got a cheap VPS without out-of-band access (only ssh or similar) and wanted to install OpenBSD on it. You could save yourself the hassle and go with RootBSD. They advertise as a FreeBSD VPS provider but will put the latest OpenBSD

Re: What are remote install options on a cheap vps?

2011-06-07 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/07/2011 09:56 AM, Benjamin Nadland wrote: I got a cheap VPS without out-of-band access (only ssh or similar) and wanted to install OpenBSD on it. According to the archives yaifo would be an option in this case, but the last version seems to be a year old and doesn't compile for me (with

Re: What are remote install options on a cheap vps?

2011-06-07 Thread Amit Kulkarni
The general trick is get the first OpenBSD install in place. After that, you can do almost anything you want afterwards. It may be tricky, you may end up making a stupid error that causes you to lose the system, but in theory, you can do almost anything. :) So.. use yaifo with whatever

Re: What are remote install options on a cheap vps?

2011-06-07 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:16:14 -0600 Mark Solocinski wrote: On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 15:56:44 +0200, Benjamin Nadland wrote: I got a cheap VPS without out-of-band access (only ssh or similar) and wanted to install OpenBSD on it. You could save yourself the hassle and go with RootBSD. They