On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 01:27:46PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: > hmm, on Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 03:29:46PM +0100, Stefan Kell said that > > "flashboot", see "http://www.mindrot.org/projects/flashboot/";. There are > > binary > > images available at "http://tilde.se/flashboot/";. "zcat GENERIC-RD.image | > > dd > > of=/dev/sd0" under Linux on the eee should give you a bootable USB-Stick > > (/dev/sd0 as an example). But I didn't try this myself. > > i am trying to make this one work. but i dont know how the openbsd dd > example translates into the linux one, there is no 'c' for all disk. > if i do a > > # zcat image | dd of=/dev/sdd > > linux fdisk reports an invalid partition table. > i tried to create an a6 bootable partition and then > > # zcat image | dd of=/dev/sdd1 > > but neither of these boot. the second one hangs, the first one > gives a partition error... > > > could someone please upload somewhere a basic install or just bsd.rd > as an image already installed on the media? and the linux dd/fdisk > dance around it? >
Since you probably will need the install sets as well, I have posted a compressed filesystem image of size 199864838 bytes at http://www.erlang.org/~raimo/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386/hd.fs.gz It contains the same as install42.iso snapshot Jan 29. Gunzip it (becomes 262144000 bytes). Load it to the USB media (in Linux): # dd if=hd.fs of=/dev/sdf bs=51200 count=5120 Change 'sdf' to what your USB media shows up as in dmesg. After that, cfdisk /dev/sdf should show an OpenBSD partition. Quit cfdisk. Reboot. > -f > -- > pi seconds is a nanocentury. -- / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
