OpenBSD Journal

BSDanywhere 4.5 released

Contributed by maxime on from the Puffytron Anywhere dept.

Stephan A. Rickauer sent us news about his BSDanywhere project:

From the BSDanywhere 4.5 announce page:

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability 
of BSDanywhere 4.5 - enlightenment at your fingertips.

As always, we release our OpenBSD 4.5 based images in
two flavours: i386 (32bit) and amd64 (64bit).

http://bsdanywhere.org/download/
Here's a quick summary of the changes since 4.5:

- Upgrade base system to OpenBSD 4.5 and packages accordingly. Please
  see the OpenBSD site for a list of changes since 4.4. OpenBSD 4.5
  provides significant improvements, including new features, in
  nearly all areas of the system.

- Contains official, standard, unmodified OpenBSD kernel. Previously, 
  we had to ship a slightly modified version of the OpenBSD kernel to 
  make the boot off CD media less cumbersome. Thanks to the OpenBSD 
  developer Kenneth R. Westerback this has been improved in OpenBSD 4.5! 
  That's why we can now ship the standard OpenBSD kernel with
  absolutely no modifications.

- Last but not least we have great new artwork, provided graciously
  by Tim Saueressig!

If you like BSDanywhere help us to keep this service up and running
by either buying an OpenBSD release set or by donating directly to OpenBSD via PayPal.
Thank you very much!

Cheers,
Stephan

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Comments
  1. By Anonymous Coward (150.101.245.181) on

    Its a great rescue disc for when you need more than what bsd.rd provides. And having enlightenment+firefox is exceptionally useful when you need to google for something.

    I can see myself using this, or something based upon this, as a convenient network boot rescue image too.

    Very nice!

  2. By Thomas Keusch (212.227.35.93) fwd+undeadly.org@gedankenverbrechen.org on http://www.gedankenverbrechen.org

    Is it somehow (easily) possible to convert this thing to boot from an USB flash drive? In this day and age, CDs are somewhat clumsy, and netbooks come without CD drives.. Googling I just found some guides for FreeBSD.

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    1. By Navan (12.32.34.2) on

      > Is it somehow (easily) possible to convert this thing to boot from an USB flash drive? In this day and age, CDs are somewhat clumsy, and netbooks come without CD drives.. Googling I just found some guides for FreeBSD.

      They have an entry in their FAQ.
      http://bsdanywhere.org/node/30

    2. By Anonymous Coward (150.101.245.181) on

      What do you need a guide for? Just plug your usb stick into a computer with a cdrom drive in it, boot from the official OpenBSD CD and install on the sd? that corresponds to your usb disk. This ain't windows xp, you know.

    3. By Anonymous Coward (64.234.51.73) on

      > Is it somehow (easily) possible to convert this thing to boot from an
      > USB flash drive? In this day and age, CDs are somewhat clumsy, and
      > netbooks come without CD drives..

      Some Notebooks and Desktops alike also come with BIOS which doesn't support booting from USB flash drive. For the one which do support booting from USB, your USB flash drive is just a regular SCSI HDD.

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