On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Paul Greidanus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Richard Daemon wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > >> On 2008-03-05, Giancarlo Razzolini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > I do the installation using a pen drive, not a > floppy, > >> > so it would be nice if there was another image, suited for a pen drive > >> > or other things bigger than floppy. > >> > >> Just do an OS installation to the pen drive then you can boot from it > >> and run bsd.rd. You can also copy the installation tgz files to it, > >> if you would like to install on machines without a working network. > >> > >> I pretty much exclusively use netboot of some kind these days though, > >> pxeboot(8) is super easy on OpenBSD... > >> > > > > Speaking of which, is there a way or any plans to add the option to > > install from a tftpd itself rather than pxebooting - pull down the > > pxeboot and bsd.rd files over tftp then install from ftp, http, etc.? > > > > > I'm confused.. pxeboot/bsd.rd requires a tftp server, so you are booting > from tftp already. Do you want to install the system from tftpboot, > i.e. base.tgz? tftp is error prone, and bad for large files, so you > almost need http/ftp to do large files. And it's easy to setup ftp.
That's exactly what I was curious on. I assume it's error prone because it does it over UDP only? I agree, it's very easy to set up ftp and what not, was just curious. I've installed from pxeboot'ing a few times on various systems like Soekris, WRAP, ALIX and others. That's why I was thinking if there would be such an option for those times when you need to pxeboot to install but don't run http/ftp on the install server. No big deal and I know there's many other ways to install on such systems... Thanks for the responses.
