> -----Message d'origine----- > De : Jeff Quast [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Envoyi : mercredi 12 juillet 2006 04:17 > @ : misc@openbsd.org > Cc : Jirtme Loyet > Objet : Re: Installboot on linux ? > > On 7/11/06, Nick Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 7/11/06, Jirtme Loyet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I want to use the installboot (from openbsd) to linux to > install a > > > bootstrap on a FFS openbsd disk from linux. > > > > > > Is there an equivalent to installboot on linux? Has this > application > > > ever been ported to linux ? > > > I'll port it to linux if nothing as already been done. > > > > Pardon? > > > > Remember that BSDs use a disklabel(8) while Linux doesn't. > > > > I think you might want to read this: > > ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.9/i386/INSTALL.linux > > > > In any case, wouldn't it be simpler to just boot into an OpenBSD > > install disk and work from there, rather than using installboot(8) > > from within Linux? > > > > -Nick > > > > > > It sounds like you are in an extreme case, such as: A laptop > with no floppy disk, a broken cd-rom drive, no network to > netboot with, and you are too poor to purchase the hardware > necessary to install openbsd in the proper manner. > > In these very rare cases: dd the floppy image to your swap partition. > Point grub or lilo to boot from this partition. Install > openbsd over existing linux partition. > > Otherwise you must be looking for time to waste. As much as I > would like to see 500 lines of code wrapped with 20,000 lines > of gnu/linux makefile/configure automagic wrappers, I think > you could probobly use your programming skills to help the > project in more important ways. If you do decide to port it > anyway, please make sure to include at least sparc and amd64 > support in your port. > > Looking forward to your sourceforge project page! Keep us updated!
This an extreme case: It's on a remote server on which I have only access to a rescue linux. So from this linux, I want to create an customm installer, to pack it and install it on the disk so that after reboot openbsd would install itselft automatically. I've find equivalent for many utilities from openbsd to linux but the last operation (install the openbsd bootloader on the image which is localy mounted) need more work. I'll try to use grub instead of the openbsd bootloader and if it's not working, I'll have to port installboot to linux. That's why I was looking for a port for installboot. I could run all the command on an openbsd at home and then transfert the image to finally dd but in the future it could be use by the compagny which rent dedicated servers to propose openbsd in standard (as their install servers are running on linux). ++ Jerome [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/x-pkcs7-signature which had a name of smime.p7s]
