[Soekris] Best way to install openbsd

Philip Plane philip at xinqu.net
Tue Nov 7 18:31:21 UTC 2006


Hi,

> can anyone reccomend a good way to install openbsd without too much work?
> I've got a 4801 and need openbsd with some utils (bind, openvpn, etc) to
> be installed, and i'd like all the normal things to be installed too like
> man pages, but worry about getting a ramdisk running as this 'll be my
> first time playing with ramdisks on openbsd.
>
> Any words of advice from anyone? - or a cf card image perhaps? - the cards
> i have are 512mb

I have gathered my notes on installing OpenBSD onto CF at
http://philip.xinqu.net/cf.html

I normally use a 256M CF because a 128M is just a bit small for bsd, base,
and etc. So your 512M CF will be plenty.

Take the time to sort out PXE booting. It makes life real easy.

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