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PXE booting OpenBSD on an ALIX via Ubuntu Live CD – mark shroyer, dot com
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Update: I’ve expanded the contents of this post into a full guide to running an OpenBSD router on an ALIX board. This is a quick guide to booting the OpenBSD installer on a PC Engines ALIX board with tinyBIOS (such as the ALIX 2d3) via PXE, using just the following: PC with two network interfaces. One of these needs to be Ethernet, and the other must connect to the Internet. For example, any standard PC laptop with both WiFi and Ethernet adapters will work if there’s a WiFi Internet connection available. Null modem cable Ethernet crossover cable USB-serial adapter (unless your PC has a built-in RS-232 port) Ubuntu Linux 10.10 desktop live CD Thanks to the versatility of the Ubuntu live CD (specifically the use of AUFS to provide a writable root directory in RAM), you can set up the necessary PXE boot server without making any permanent changes to your PC. Ubuntu packages Boot the Ubuntu live CD and quit the installer. Ensure that Ubuntu has a working Internet connection...
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