Norman Gray <nor...@astro.gla.ac.uk> 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 > > > -- > Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk > SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK
A pxeboot is done by the firmware, so OpenBSD's hardware support doesn't enter into it (however if you have machines that netboot and then mount root from NFS they would obviously need hardware support; this does not apply to you but you may see the paradigm in netboot documentation). Once RAMDISK_CD is loaded you should be able to use the wired network and USB. Use either the bsd.rd on the distribution servers or one from cdXX.iso or installXX.iso - Martin
