On Mon, 7 Apr 2014 13:08:08 +0100 Norman Gray <nor...@astro.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
| Brett, hello. | | On 2014 Apr 7, at 12:36, Brett Mahar <br...@coiloptic.org> wrote: | | > Maybe I missed some of the posts but instead of all these crazy convoluted methods, just install to a usb drive on a regular computer (ie one with a cd rom) then boot ramdisk (bsd.rd) on your netbook, explanations at: | > | > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#flashmemLive | > | > and slightly more complicated: | > | > http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140225072408 | | That route would indeed work (I quoted both of those links in my original | email), but both require a pre-existing OpenBSD installation in order | to create the bootable full install on the flash drive. That pre-existing | installation is what I don't have. | Hi Norman, You wouldn't need a pre-existing machine with openbsd on it, any machine with a cdrom will do, ie 1. download openbsd iso and burn to cd (can be done from windows/openbsd/linux/anything) 2. boot from cd after plugging usb stick into machine 3. install openbsd selecting usb stick as the target hard drive (probably be sd0 but during that part of install you can press '?' for details and make sure you select the correct 'disk' Brett.
