On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 08:14:56AM -0800, Unix Fan wrote:
| markus ploner wrote:
| > just for the record:
| > you could've just dd'ed the floppy42.fs to the usb device
| > this has worked for me several times.
| >
| > markus
|
| That'd be a pretty dumb way to do it...
Actually, it's not so bad...
| 1) The bsd.rd on the floppy image is considerably smaller then the one on the
CD.
That doesn't really matter as long as you get enough drivers to
install over the network.
| 2) USB thumb drives are more like hard drives, they use an MBR.. which one
might want to preserve.
For booting purposes, I've found them more to be like floppies /
CD's-with-floppy-emulation. USB harddrives are more like hard drives,
but USB flash storage typically boot like floppies.
And why you'd want to preserve the MBR if your alternative is
formatting and installing the thing in your suggestion is beyond me.
After dd'ing floppy*.fs to your USB key and using that to install, you
can simply reformat and reuse.
| Using fdisk/disklabel/newfs and then installboot would be the better
option.... ;)
Why is it better ? Simply `dd if=floppy42.fs of=/dev/sd0c` in a few
seconds and boot from it. I've done this several times and it Just
Works (tm). I've also done a complete OpenBSD install on my 4G
'thumbdrive' but I've yet to find a machine that can boot it (all
the machines I've tried (except for my MacBook Pro) boot floppy42.fs
from the same thumbdrive without problems).
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
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