[nycbug-talk] install fest

[Okan Demirmen]

On Sat 2004.08.07 at 19:22 -0400, George Georgalis wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 05:01:05PM -0400, G Rosamond wrote:
> >
> >Played a bit with OBSD. . .didn't have null modem cable to do a Soekris 
> >install. . .
> >
> 
> I'm kinda stuck, can't make an obsd bootable install disk... here's what I tried
> 
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> rsync -av --progress --delete --delete-excluded \
> 	--exclude='alpha' \
> 	--exclude='amd64' \
> 	--exclude='arm' \
> 	--exclude='cats' \
> 	--exclude='hp300' \
> 	--exclude='hppa' \
> 	--exclude='m68k' \
> 	--exclude='m88k' \
> 	--exclude='mac68k' \
> 	--exclude='macppc' \
> 	--exclude='mvme68k' \
> 	--exclude='mvme88k' \
> 	--exclude='packages' \
> 	--exclude='powerpc' \
> 	--exclude='sparc' \
> 	--exclude='sparc64' \
> 	--exclude='vax' \
> 	rsync://ftp.nluug.nl/OpenBSD/3.5/ openbsd/3.5/
> 
> mkisofs -r -G ./i386/bsd.rd ./ \
> 	| ssh root at localhost "cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 -eject -data -"

bsd.rd is simply a ramdisk - you need an fs such as cdrom.fs in i386/

something like mkisofs -r -b i386/cdrom.fs . | ssh....

okan

oh, and you probably do, but make sure you ahve all of i386/*

> 
> The cd is made with the expected files
> 
> $ ls /cdrom
> ANNOUNCEMENT  PACKAGES  SIZES       i386          src.tar.gz
> Changelogs    PORTS     XF4.tar.gz  ports.tar.gz  sys.tar.gz
> HARDWARE      README    ftplist     root.mail     tools
> $ find  /cdrom | wc -l
>     135
> 
> ...but it doesn't boot. Any ideas?
> 
> // George
> 
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