On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Ilya Ilembitov wrote:
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.
With Thinkpad, the following has never dissapointed me:
dd if=floppy47.fs of=/dev/rsd0c (or whatever your USB flashdrive is) and
then just boot off it. This procedure either works or not with machines
from other manufacturers, but if a Thinkpad is your only concern, it's
damn quick. In fact, I haven't tried it with recent Lenovo branded
Thinkpads, but I hope they didn't change the BIOS to worse. You have to
try.
If the RAMDISK kernel won't give you a working network driver, copy the
installation sets to another USB flashdrive (or even the same, you won't
need it after the boot), mount it and install.
Regards,
David
