Build Machine

1. Build Machine
2. release.sh Instructions
3. image.sh Instructions
4. Customization
5. Write Image
6. Post Installation
7. Known Issues

Project Status Please note that this project is no longer active. If you are interested in taking over the code base please let me know.

Build Machine

Detailed OpenBSD installation instructions are beyond the scope of this document, for help please see the OpenBSD Installation Guide. Some basic details are provided below.

VMWare Build Machine

It is possible to use a vmware image as the build machine. An empty VMWare image can be downloaded here and can be used with the free VMWare player which is available here.

Version tested was VMware player 2.0.2 (VMware-player-2.0.2-59824.exe).

Useful Information The VMWare image is setup with an empty 10G drive image, it is suggested to set a partition to 8G and the swap b partition to 2G.

Real Build Machine

If you want to use a real build machine, please use the generic kernel and make sure to have at least 8G of free drive space.

General Installation

Warning Due to a packaging issue with OpenBSD 4.2 please include the xbase42.tgz package during install.

Install the following packages for the build machine:

• bsd
• bsd.rd
• base42.tgz
• etc42.tgz
• misc42.tgz
• comp42.tgz
• man42.tgz
• xbase42.tgz (see warning above)

Post Installation

The following should be done regardless of the type of build machine used.

• Change the root shell to sh, as root type:

  chsh -s /bin/sh
  

• Install gtar and wget, make sure the i386 install cdrom is still in the drive and as root type:

  mount /dev/cd0a /mnt
  cd /mnt/*/packages/i386
  pkg_add *zip-*.tgz
  pkg_add wget-*.tgz
  cd
  umount /mnt
  

• Download the greenfrog zip using wget, as root type:

  wget http://maven2.gordonturner.ca/ca/gordonturner/greenfrog/greenfrog/4.2/greenfrog-4.2.zip
  

  Which should download the greenfrog zip file to the /root directory.

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