OpenBSD 3.9 remote installation

[Nick Guenther]

On 5/7/06, Nick Guenther <kousue at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/7/06, Leines <openbsd at leines.net> wrote:
> > Hi Nick,
> >
>
> Are you able to set it to boot via pxe? If you could do that, you
> could set up a server at your house and somehow convince the thing to
> boot via pxe AND via your specified server.

Actually, of course that is stupid. In order to do this you will have
to hack whatever part of the system handles bootp (dhcpd?) and tell it
to try to contact your given server across the internet. This is, of
course, pretty insecure (except for a one-shot attempt, this is
obscure enough to be secure) and extremely difficult.

Like Daniel said, it's too much effort for most people to handle,
certainly if they have never even booted up OpenBSD before. Also, in
order to run a pxe server you'd have to have a spare box running at
home to do it which you could install OpenBSD on instead.

-Nick