On Fri, Feb 07, 2025 at 07:54:51PM +0530, Sandeep Gupta wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone here have experience with netcup vps. They offer debian by
> default. However I was wondering if any has tried running openBSD.
> I tried but it seems the bootloader defaults to booting via PXE netboot and
> doesn't look for boot via images on attached disks.
>
> If someone has investigated this, would be helpful if they can share some
> pointers.
>
> Thanks,
> Sandeep
My preferred method of getting OpenBSD in a VPS is installing Debian,
dd a minirootNN.img into the raw disk (/dev/sdX, not /dev/sdXn) and hard
rebooting it. It works in every provider I tried it so far.
About netcup in particular, I tried their arm64 server and it works like
crap. The I/O is dead slow. I don't recommend it. I didn't try amd64.
Lucas
