Thanks. The virtual machine is a great idea. No substitute for actual
experience, though, which is why I asked if anyone had done it yet.

There are times when I really do want to just wipe a system, repurposing the
box to new set of configurations/applications and I've always found it
easiest to boot from CD and start with a clean install.

I find Mac Minis to be reliable and capable machines. Their small
form-factor means I can fit 4-5 of them into the space one would usually pay
for a single server at a collocation facility, so the economics work out
quite well for me. Especially as I can often pick them up used. I have 6
minis running production web applications on OpenBSD at collocation
facilities now.

-- devin

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 1:17 PM, nothingness <nothingn...@citycable.ch>wrote:

> Sergey Bronnikov wrote:
> > What is the sense to buy Mac and install openbsd on it?
> > You pay for Mac OS when you buy a Mac. So what is the sense
> > to install another OS on it?
> >
> > On 12:05 Wed 13 Jul , Devin Ceartas wrote:
> >
> >> Has anyone used OpenBSD on the new mac mini servers which don't have an
> >> integrated optical drive? Is it possible to use apple's mac mini
> external
> >> dvd/cd drive once OpenBSD has been installed (for instance, to do a cd
> boot
> >> for a clean upgrade)?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Devin M. Ceartas, owner NacreData L.L.C.
> >> <nacred...@gmail.com>
> >>
> >>
> You don't need a cd/dvd drive to do a "clean" upgrade, just download the
> latest bsd.rd from snapshots/release and boot on that.
>
>


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