002-install.txt (1758B) [raw]
1 # 002-install 2 3 _Tues Sept 21, 2021_ 4 5 I'm a huge fan of OpenBSD. The simplicity of the system, the cohesive 6 feel it has, the proactive stance on security... when we decided we'd 7 set up a tilde, I knew I wanted it to be on OpenBSD. 8 9 The only problem? My preferred registrar (Linode) doesn't support it! 10 11 Fortunately there's a comprehensive post on the Linode forum of how to 12 do it [here](https://www.linode.com/community/questions/10329/openbsd-on-linode). 13 14 It took us ~45m, the longest OpenBSD install I've had since I first 15 flashed it on an old thinkpad. 40m of that was waiting for the node to 16 boot and reboot, etc (we kept messing up the configuration). 17 18 1. Create a New Linode (any OS will do) 19 2. Once booted, shut it down 20 3. Under the "Storage" tab delete the ext4 partitions 21 4. Create two new disks, both "Raw" format: 22 1. One labeled "install", 1GB (could do less) 23 2. One labeled "os", the rest of the space 24 5. Boot in "Rescue" mode 25 6. In the serial console, wget the minirootXX.img 26 1. Check the sha256 against the SHA256 file 27 2. Check the signature using signify (on a different machine that 28 has signify) 29 7. Find the install disk with `lsblk` 30 8. Flash the img using: `dd if=minirootXX.img of=/dev/sdX bs=1M` 31 9. In the Configurations tab, create a new one: 32 1. Full Virtualization 33 2. Select a Kernel > Direct Disk 34 3. /dev/sda - os 35 4. /dev/sdb - install 36 5. boot from sdb 37 10. Reboot into configuration, install OpenBSD from serial console 38 11. Halt/shutdown, and change configuration to boot from sda 39 12. Rejoice! 40 41 In our case, our main problem was that we skipped the "Direct Disk" 42 kernel step so we were booting a Linux kernel and trying to load the 43 img... it panic'd every time! Took us a few boots to figure that out :)