Hi, all. I have a pretty tricky challenge before me. My main (and only) machine is a Lenovo Thinkpad X200s. The problem is that it doesn't have an optical drive. Second problem is that I live in a dorn, so I only have access to wireless connection, not wired. And I want to install OpenBSD to a laptop that is currently running Debian Linux.
Googling didn't give me any proper answer. Turns out, nearly every BSD favour (FreeBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly BSD) has either an image for sticks or some straightawy script to get the job done. But not OpenBSD. All I could find was: -involving a second machine running OpenBSD for network installation -involving a second machine running OpenBSD to create the flash using installboot and some other BSD-specific tools. Seems like in most cases people install OpenBSD on diskless laptops when it comes to netbooks but not primary machines. Which is not my case. Is there a script of some sort that could convert an OpenBSD install46.iso to an img file for a stick using some more common (non-BSD specific) tools? The best howto I could find is this one: http://www.azbsd.org/~marco/openbsd/flashkeyinstaller/ But it involves installboot and some other tools that are not available on a GNU system. What could I do? Or perhaps somebody could create and host an image (with all the filesets for 4.6) or just put it on some filehosting service? It's still just some 250-300 megs. -- wbr, Ilembitov
