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
