Build Machine (Release 4.1)

1. Build Machine (Release 4.1)
2. release.sh Instructions (Release 4.1)
3. image.sh Instructions (Release 4.1)
4. Customization (Release 4.1)
5. Write Image (Release 4.1)
6. Post Installation (Release 4.1)
7. Known Issues (Release 4.1)

Project Status Please note that this project is no longer active.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.

Overview

A build machine is required to get a current OpenBSD build and create a compact flash boot image. This build machine can be a VMWare virtual machine or a physical machine.

Installation

Detailed OpenBSD installation instructions are beyond the scope of this document. But for general OpenBSD installation questions, please see the OpenBSD faqs.

If you are using a physical machine, please install the OpenBSD you plan to use to create the image and move down to Post Installation.

If you are using a vmware image, an empty VMWare image can be downloaded here and can be used with the free VMWare player which is available here.

The installation on a vmware image is the same as a physical machine, but be sure to delete the original 'a' slice that takes up the entire disk and create a smaller 'a' slice with room for a swap 'b' slice.

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://gordonturner.ca/maven/greenfrog/distributions/greenfrog-4.1.zip

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

Next release.sh Instructions (Release 4.1).