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Old 5th April 2010
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I am one of those whose skills are largely gleaned by what I read in FAQ's, Man pages and Forums and have been looking putting OBSD on a netbook.


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The minimal install set for i386 (from a snapshot or release) would be:

# l files/
total 500060
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 31 03:04:36 2010 ./
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Mar 30 15:48:38 2010 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2162 Mar 30 15:48:52 2010 SHA256
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 50551104 Mar 30 15:50:08 2010 base47.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 7592844 Mar 30 15:49:56 2010 bsd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 7616392 Mar 30 15:49:54 2010 bsd.mp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 6304746 Mar 30 15:49:51 2010 bsd.rd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 92648166 Mar 30 15:49:43 2010 comp47.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 514498 Mar 30 15:49:21 2010 etc47.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2618018 Mar 30 15:49:19 2010 game47.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 9463948 Mar 30 15:49:17 2010 man47.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 364819 Mar 30 15:49:16 2010 misc47.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 15550317 Mar 30 15:49:12 2010 xbase47.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 70053 Mar 30 15:49:10 2010 xetc47.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 39684757 Mar 30 15:49:05 2010 xfont47.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 19879062 Mar 30 15:48:53 2010 xserv47.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2946170 Mar 30 15:50:14 2010 xshare47.tgz
I wonder about calling the above file set "minimal". It seems to me that
on could use
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drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 31 03:04:36 2010 ./
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Mar 30 15:48:38 2010 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2162 Mar 30 15:48:52 2010 SHA256
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 50551104 Mar 30 15:50:08 2010 base47.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 7592844 Mar 30 15:49:56 2010 bsd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 7616392 Mar 30 15:49:54 2010 bsd.mp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 6304746 Mar 30 15:49:51 2010 bsd.rd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 514498 Mar 30 15:49:21 2010 etc47.tgz
Once you have accomplished the install and have a working internet connection then add the additional file sets per FAQ 4.11
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#AddFileSet
The above would fit on a 128mb drive

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. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears that you need to copy
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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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