Thursday, January 7, 2010

make bootable usb with openbsd 4.6 installer

# fdisk -iy sd0
# disklabel -E sd0
> d *
> a a
##make install partition 1G
> q
# newfs sd0a
# mkdir /mnt/usb
# cd /mnt/usb
# mount /dev/sd0a /mnt/usb
# ftp ftp.openbsd.org
user: anonymous
password: 123456
ftp> cd pub/OpenBSD/4.6/i386
ftp> mget *
mget INSTALL.i386? a
ftp> exit
# cp /boot /mnt/usb/boot
# /usr/mdec/installboot -v /mnt/usb/boot /usr/mdec/biosboot sd0c
# cp /mnt/usb/bsd /mnt/usb/bsd.old
# cp /mnt/usb/bsd.rd /mnt/usb/bsd
# cd /
# umount /mnt/usb
try it


see also: http://bsdanywhere.org/
see also: https://calomel.org/bootable_openbsd_cd.html

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