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 4.8-release). The yaifo mailing list seems discontinued aswell.
Another idea would be to make a local install and dd it directly to the
remote hardisk via a rescue system.
Anyone ever tried this? Are there any other options i am not aware of?
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 version of OpenBSD you can, then update to
4.9 or -current. Or a binary overwrite of a very minimal system Or
whatever. If you can get a 500M or 1G root partition with a kernel,
baseXX.tgz and etcXX.tgz, you can build out the rest AFTER you have ssh
access to the system.
I'd suggest setting up a similar local system which you can "practice"
with -- more similar, the better, but even just "a computer" will help a
lot.
Nick.
