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Tangentially related at best...anybody here succeed doing PXE with virtualbox's tftp and openbsd? I get an unhelpful error msg.
What is the technical blocker to installing OpenBSD without a FreeBSD shim, e.g. is there incompatible code in the OpenBSD installer?
On digital ocean you get a very limited set of boot options. You can't provide them your own installer, boot image, kernel, iso, or any of that jazz. You also don't get a pre-boot console. For linux, they don't even let you provide your own kernel in userland or the like, so there's actually no way to install a BSD from a linux shim on DO. FreeBSD on DO is the only way to get an instance that is capable of booting an…
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I used these instructions a few weeks ago and they worked. You will need to download miniroot58.fs (not miniroot57.fs).
True indeed, the article was written a week before the release of 5.8...
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On digital ocean you get a very limited set of boot options. You can't provide them your own installer, boot image, kernel, iso, or any of that jazz. You also don't get a pre-boot console. For linux, they don't even let you provide your own kernel in userland or the like, so there's actually no way to install a BSD from a linux shim on DO. FreeBSD on DO is the only way to get an instance that is capable of booting an…
If yoy want to run your own kernel you can always use kexec (not ideal, but works): https://gist.github.com/cpuguy83/6143347
This also probably works on other cloud providers if they support a virtualization layer that OpenBSD will work with. I've heard of successes here too: https://vultr.com/ Just be sure you use miniroot58.fs -- OpenBSD 5.8 wasn't released when this was written.
5.8 is still currently in development/snapshot - not for amateur users. 5.7 is the latest official release. 5.8 is due on Nov 1.
And using -stable (release + patches) is a hassle of manually applying patches and re-compiling - no binary updates are available.
If running snapshots is not for amateurs, neither is running stable.
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5.8 is still currently in development/snapshot - not for amateur users. 5.7 is the latest official release. 5.8 is due on Nov 1.
Worth noting though that if you use the release, you get no updates, security or otherwise, till the next release in 6 months. And using -stable (release + patches) is a hassle of manually applying patches and re-compiling - no binary updates are available. If running snapshots is not for amateurs, neither is running stable.
If you need binaries there is always http://opensource.mtier.org/binpatchng.html
This also probably works on other cloud providers if they support a virtualization layer that OpenBSD will work with. I've heard of successes here too: https://vultr.com/ Just be sure you use miniroot58.fs -- OpenBSD 5.8 wasn't released when this was written.
Vultr allows installing from ISO, so no need to shim. I can verify that OpenBSD 5.7-stable will run with no issues. One thing to watch out for is that outgoing TCP connections to port 25 are blocked until you ask them to open it up.
Thanks for that info, that seems like a fairly reasonable policy.
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5.8 is still currently in development/snapshot - not for amateur users. 5.7 is the latest official release. 5.8 is due on Nov 1.
Worth noting though that if you use the release, you get no updates, security or otherwise, till the next release in 6 months. And using -stable (release + patches) is a hassle of manually applying patches and re-compiling - no binary updates are available. If running snapshots is not for amateurs, neither is running stable.
Tangentially related at best...anybody here succeed doing PXE with virtualbox's tftp and openbsd? I get an unhelpful error msg.
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5.8 is still currently in development/snapshot - not for amateur users. 5.7 is the latest official release. 5.8 is due on Nov 1.
Worth noting though that if you use the release, you get no updates, security or otherwise, till the next release in 6 months. And using -stable (release + patches) is a hassle of manually applying patches and re-compiling - no binary updates are available. If running snapshots is not for amateurs, neither is running stable.