OpenBSD 3.9 remote installation

[Tony Abernethy]

Leines wrote:
> 
> > 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.
To be aware of, and this is deadly critical playing remotely:
Windows and Linux use the DOS partition table.
Other than whatever the BIOS needs to boot, OpenBSD does NOT use
the DOS partition table for much if anything.
OpenBSD uses what it calls a disklabel in which OpenBSD has what
OpenBSD calls partitions. Now quick, what's a partition?

The install takes very little in the way of interaction, but
reducing the interaction to nothing is extremely hard.
There is surely SOME difference between your computer and mine.

> 
> Well, of xourse, I am new to OpenBSD. I am not sure whether PXE 
> will run on
> my server or not. I read the requirements but I haven't tried yet. This
> would have been one of my next attempts (but I don't give it a 
> real chance,
> though). I hav an old machine here on which I can (and probably will)
> install OpenBSD 3.9, but I am not sure whether or not it will help me
> install it on my server.
Oh, that should help immensely.
You set up on that machine not just OpenBSD 3.9, but set up and 
configured the way you want the real machine set up and configured.
You set up what you'd have if you had the remote machine in hand.

> 
> I can't believe that this issue did not occurred somewhere else??
It occurs quite often, but no easy answers are possible.
Even remote upgrades are touchy beasts.

> 
> Greetings from Germany,
> 
> Leines
> 
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