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Originally Posted by shep
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears that you need to copy
Code:
cp /usr/mdec/boot /mnt
from a working OBSD machine. This could be an obstacle for newbies whose only machine needs a usb device for installation.
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To make the drive bootable, the following three files are required:
- /usr/mdec/boot
- /usr/mdec/installboot
- /usr/mdec/biosboot
...& all can be extracted from
base46.tgz itself. However, to run
installboot requires being on a OpenBSD platform which gets back to your original point. To construct a bootable USB install device requires a working OpenBSD installation.
Configuring a USB drive for all file sets + kernels takes 200-210MB as I recall, but if your goal is to utilize
very small USB drives, you may want to consider copying
floppy46.fs to the USB drive with
dd(1). This only provides enough functionality to boot & grap file sets via
ftp(1).
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Another thought is whether it would be feasible to make minimal i386 and amd64 *.img files that could be burned directly to the usb flash drive and post them on the internet as a service.
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This has been discussed repeatedly on
misc@ lately, & you will get little
(if any) support from the community in general.
ie:
http://marc.info/?t=126765524000004&r=1&w=2
The most salient argument is that it would cut into CD sales.