On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 6:51 AM, stan <[email protected]> wrote: > OK with one resevation you have convinced me. Let's eliminate teh > reservation. One of the features of the system I chose was that it mounts > the flas RO, and uses memory filesystems for volatile stuff. Is this no > longer important? I have 2 existing soekris systems that have been in > service for years, and have not given any trouble. I want the new ones to > be equally troubel free. Can i acomplish this with a stnadard install? > > second, I have no idea how to boot a Soekris box from install media. There > is no floppy, no CD... how do I acomplish this? >
Here's a solution I was told from #openbsd on Freenode, on your local machine (assuming you run OpenBSD on a machine somewhere): 1) dd if=/dev/zero of=bsdrd-boot.img bs=1024 count=20480 2) vnconfig svnd0 bsdrd-boot.img 3) print 'z\na\n\n\n\n\nw\n' | disklabel -E svnd0 4) newfs svnd0a 5) mount /dev/svnd0a /mnt 6) cp /bsd.rd /boot /mnt 7) /usr/mdec/installboot -v /mnt/boot /usr/mdec/biosboot svnd0 8) mkdir /mnt/etc && print 'stty com0 9600\nset tty com0\n' > /mnt/etc/boot.conf 9) umount /mnt 10) # insert CF card into a card reader 11) dd if=bsdrd-boot.img of=/dev/sdXc 12) # Remove CF card and insert into your Soekris box and boot it up 13) ... 14) Profit! Once you've done this you'll be able to continue the install over a serial console. Null modem cables are cheap. It would also be trivial to wire up an RJ-45 connector to a 9-pin serial port connector if you have a Cisco rollover cable handy. -- Aaron Mason - Programmer, open source addict I've taken my software vows - for beta or for worse
