On 2014/04/07 13:08, Norman Gray wrote: > > Stuart, hello. > > On 2014 Apr 6, at 23:39, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > > > ale(4) and the USB drivers are not on the single-floppy installer > > that you're using, hence the lack of network and flash devices. > > Ah, well that explains _that_ little problem, and neatly closes off a > fruitless avenue. > > > Oh - your other method (which should work for 5.4 too) is to pxeboot. > > Just needs a dhcp server (see mdoc.su/o/pxeboot for details) and tftp > > serving the pxeboot and bsd.rd files. > > But wouldn't that require a working network adapter? > Since the wireless adapter in this netbook isn't supported > by OpenBSD, and as you explain the wired interface isn't supported > on the floppy.fs installer, doesn't this rule out a pxeboot? > (or am I getting myself terribly confused?) > > Thanks! > > Norman
There's a small piece of knowledge that you're missing; floppy.fs uses the RAMDISK kernel, which is a single-floppy kernel with tight size restrictions. pxeboot uses bsd.rd which is a RAMDISK_CD kernel which has a much larger set of drivers. I used this method to install onto my ZG5 which is quite similar to your ZG8. Apart from the supplied wireless card not being supported (which I handled by swapping with a different card, though the tiny USB adapters are also an option), on the whole OpenBSD works pretty well on my machine (and it was I think the first machine to have ACPI suspend+resume). Only problem I run into is that occasionally the keyboard doesn't work at boot; if so, the first thing to try is suspending and resuming, which clears it about half the time it happens.
