[Soekris] OpenBSD 3.5 installation on net4801 question

[Andreas Kahari]

On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 12:51:50AM -0400, Len Jacobs wrote:
> I noticed several postings regarding setting up soekris devices by first 
> installing OBSD on the hard drive while it is installed in a laptop. If 
> you follow that procedure, how do you setup networking in that instance? 
> Are you able to configure the soekris and sshd so you could simply ssh 
> to it aftr the OS is installed? I can not figure out how to get that 
> working and for some reason my dhcpd server is not getting seen by the 
> soekris pxeboot process.

I used a 2.5" drive mounted on the 4801 itself and played around
with the configuration until I was happy.  I then transferred
the content of the hard drive to a CF card by simply using
rsync.  I had to do some fixup afterwards by booting the OpenBSD
bsd.rd kernel because I wanted to have some devices in /dev
prebuilt ("std" and "wd0") and build the rest on bootup from
/etc/rc with /dev union mounted on MFS, and /var needed to be
cleaned out (MFS mounting it with copy from /proto/var), and
other similar things.

Regarding you DHCP problem, did you read the OpenBSD diskless(8)
and pxeboot(8) manuals?  To install on the hard drive connected
to the 4801, I pxe-booted the i386 bsd.rd kernel from my
OpenBSD/amd64 machine.  I used the information from those two
manuals to set the diskless booting up.

Cheers,
Andreas

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Andreas Kähäri