On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 11:03:33PM +0100, Wolfgang Kess wrote:
> Hi,
>
> can you give me some advice how to install OpenBSD
> on a Sun Cobalt Qube 3, please?
>
> The Cube comes without cdrom or fd and no display
>
> I read about the PXE installation
> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#PXE
>
>
> What kind of installation method do you recommend?
I'm going to go out on a limb and assume the box supports netbooting,
which your post suggests.
I've never actually used that procedure before - by virtue of lack of
suitable hardware in any quantity worth the bother (the quantity is
currently 1) - but it's supposed to be very easy, especially when
dealing with many systems.
The other options involve either hooking some sort of bootable device up
to the box, or preinstalling OpenBSD on the hard disk (you know, take it
out, put it in a machine that is already running OpenBSD, copy, return
it to the original, all the while hoping it still works...)
If there's already an OS on there, convincing it to either boot bsd.rd
or load entirely in RAM (so that you can do the local equivalent of nc
-l 23434 > /dev/hd0c) might be easier.
Joachim
