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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By Anonymous Coward (150.101.245.181) on
I can see myself using this, or something based upon this, as a convenient network boot rescue image too.
Very nice!
By Thomas Keusch (212.227.35.93) fwd+undeadly.org@gedankenverbrechen.org on http://www.gedankenverbrechen.org
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By Navan (12.32.34.2) on
They have an entry in their FAQ.
http://bsdanywhere.org/node/30
By Anonymous Coward (150.101.245.181) on
By Anonymous Coward (64.234.51.73) on
> 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.