OpenBSD 3.9 remote installation

[patric conant]

How is this still not on the radar? No enduring upgrade path, no
remote install? The original poster should stick with his supported
platform, and OpenBSD should be used in disposable systems around the
house? This is crazy why is an enterprise-class OS stuck with legacy
installation and maintenence? I suppose that this project's strength
comes from a clarity of vision that has to do with a small close  knit
core, but it seems to get tunnel-vision from that same dynamic .


On 5/7/06, Nick Guenther <kousue at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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