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Old 6th March 2010
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Originally Posted by eurovive View Post
I don't know how i can install it on USB, if your OS needs special formatting...
It is a three step process, on OpenBSD.
  1. Connect your USB device to the system.
  2. Boot the ramdisk kernel (four ways, described below).
  3. Conduct a standard installation
Installation media options: diskette, optical, network, tape. Tape and network boot require manual setup, described in the INSTALL.<arch> documentation included with each release.

If you don't have diskette drives, optical drives, or tape, nor the appropriate facilities for network boot, then there is still an easy solution: Conduct the installation to USB storage from within a virtual machine, booting a diskette or optical image.
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And BSD is not supported by driver and hardware manufacturers - so mostly its server operating system.
That is such a broadly ignorant statement on so many levels, I'll only try to provide the most basic set of corrections. The history of the BSDs is rich and long, and there is a wealth of material you have missed. You need to do some general research, before you post statements like that, because it indicates you have no clue that:
  • There is no single "BSD" -- there are a number of FOSS projects, and commercial ones, based on the Univeristy of California at Berkeley's final release of BSD 4.4Lite after their settlement with AT&T.
  • There are a multitude of hardware and softare vendors that sell products that have one of the BSDs embedded within them, or components of the BSDs within them, or their own products based on BSD. This includes companies you might have heard of, such as IBM, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, and Apple.
  • Many peripheral hardware equipment vendors, who produce drivers, are actively supporting efforts to use their hardware with one or more of the BSDs. Even the OpenBSD Project, which will never accept any closed source driver into the OS under any circumstance, has hardware vendors actively supporting the project with documentation and best effort consulting services, so that Project developers can produce functioning drivers for these companies' hardware products.
  • Each of the major FOSS BSD Projects provides lists of companies engaged in commercial support and consulting services.
  • For a purchaser of computer systems, a system vendor's "support" for an OS is either important or not, but it makes no difference if that platform will be used as a workstation or a server.
You need to do some homework before you jump to your next set of conclusions.

Last edited by jggimi; 6th March 2010 at 04:51 AM.
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