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Old 9th December 2010
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I have an Asus EEE netbook, and I did my initial installation from the network, I think. It's been a year since then, so I'm a little fuzzy if I did it from network or stick. Network would have been faster/easier for me, using pxeboot(8), as I have a network of machines and underlying dhcp and tftp services already operational. I also have booted USB sticks on this netbook. But for me, its easy enough to create a bootable stick, I just use another OpenBSD system.

I'm sure I also booted a USB stick with puppy linux on it in order to reduce the WXP partition size, prior to installing. I keep WXP around for firmware loads, rare uses of Skype, and rare re-provisioning of a universal entertainment remote control.

Do you have another platform that has a dhcp and tftp server handy? It need not be OpenBSD. If you do, PXE booting would be the way to go. If not, installing into a virtual machine to create a bootable stick would be acceptable. Qemu can do this, and it's available for WXP.
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