frantisek holop wrote:
hmm, on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:45:27AM -0500, Nick Holland said that
(short version: just do a normal install to the flash disk)
how do i boot bsd.rd to make an install to the flash disk?
chicken egg. i dont have an usb cdrom, nor floppy disk.
only usb media. i need to create a bootable usb media...
-f
see the referenced thread...
Prep the install device on another machine. Other machine just needs
a USB port, doesn't need to be bootable there or USB2 or anything else
fancy, as long as OpenBSD recognizes it.
Either that, or get me an eeepc so I can see what the existing
environment is and what the BIOS can do, then we might be able to give
you specific instructions to build a boot environment on the eeepc,
but it would be cheaper to just prep it on another machine. :)
(some people will say dd the floppy image onto the flash device, but
the functionality of that depends upon your BIOS's USB boot code.
'course, the functionality of my process assumes a non-broken USB
boot code in the BIOS, and I should know better).
Nick.
