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
