Build Machine (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Please note that this project is no longer active.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).