1dnl $OpenBSD: xfer,v 1.28 2005/03/18 13:30:51 miod Exp $ 2Installation is supported from several media types, including: 3 4 CD-ROM (NOT supported if booting from floppy) 5 FFS partitions (for upgrades only) 6 Tape 7 FTP 8 HTTP 9 10If you can burn the bootable CD-ROM mini image, you can boot from it. 11Otherwise, you will need to create a bootable floppy disk. 12 13OpenBSDXferFloppyFromDOS 14 15OpenBSDXferFloppyFromUNIX 16 17If you neither have a floppy drive nor a CD-ROM drive on your alpha: 18 19 If you don't have a floppy drive you can copy the floppy 20 image onto the hard disk you intend to install OpenBSD on. 21 Doing so will overwrite the disk's old contents, however. 22 23 You must use a UN*X-like system to write the floppy image 24 to the hard disk you will be using for OpenBSD/MACHINE. You 25 should use the "dd" command to copy the file system image 26 (floppy{:--:}OSrev.fs or floppyB{:--:}OSrev.fs) directly to the raw 'c' 27 device (whole disk) of the target hard disk. It is suggested 28 that you read the dd(1) manual page or ask your system 29 administrator to determine the correct set of arguments to use; 30 it will be slightly different from system to system, and a 31 comprehensive list of the possibilities is beyond the scope of 32 this document. 33 34 Please note that this will put a floppy disklabel on your 35 disk which will confuse the install script. To fix this 36 you need to ask for a shell (answer "s" to the first question) 37 when booting your disk and do "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd0c 38 count=20", assuming you booted from sd0. After doing this you will 39 not be able to boot that disk again unless you complete 40 the install. You can now enter "install" and start the 41 actual install process. 42 43 44 45OpenBSDXferShortPrelude 46 47 48OpenBSDXferBareTape(xbase xetc xfont xserv xshare) 49 50OpenBSDXferFFS 51