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Episode: 2181
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Title: HPR2181: Install OpenBSD from Linux using Grub
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2181/hpr2181.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-18 15:24:32
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This is HPR episode 2,181 entitled Install Open PSD from Linux Using Blub.
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It is hosted by Norrist and in about 8 minutes long.
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The summary is Install Open PSD from Linux Using Blub.
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It's about a record something real quick about how I install Open PSD using Grub, starting
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with a Linux distribution loading the Open PSD installer using Grub.
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Why would you want to do that?
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I think I'm going to save why to use Open PSD kind of an overview of what Open PSD is.
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Why you may want to use it and how it's similar to some advantages and disadvantages.
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I'm going to save that for another episode, but why would you want to install an existing?
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Usually you start to install Open PSD from CD or whatever, but normally install Open
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PSD using Grub.
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It's because I'm doing that in another way, or I do this a lot, like Rackspace or Digital
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Ocean where they give you like a base and they've got several.
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They don't normally have Open PSD and I know some VPSes may ISO to do installation.
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If you can't do that, as long as you can get to the Grub menu, you can use Grub and
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start that.
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This is what I do.
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So to load the Open PSD installer using Grub, it has to be the newer version of Grub
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Grub2, sort of the Grub Legacy or the Grub0.
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That doesn't work, so whenever you're going to do this, start includes Grub2.
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I am most familiar, I'm Red Hat and SintoS, and so I normally start with SintoS7 because
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it comes with Grub2 by the final legacy.
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Grub2 can load Open PSD kernels, so whenever you're machine boots, Grub, most of the time
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when you're using Grub, it'll load the RAM disk or something like that, but it can also
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load an Open PSD kernels, and the Open PSD installer in its most minimal form is just
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the Open PSD with a few extra bits, just enough to do the installation.
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First, you want to make sure that whenever you're going to do this with, you actually
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have access to the Grub menu.
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So I know sometimes with VPSes when you remove the VPS, they don't have like an HTML 5 or
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flash console available, so boot up, interact with the Grub, and if you can't do that, then
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you can't install it if you can't use the Grub.
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So step one is make sure you have access to the console from step two.
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Take note of any network information, you'll need that during the installation.
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If it's on a network, which uses, if it's on a network that's using DHCP, then it's easy,
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but if it's not, you need to know IP address, the net mask, default route, and at least,
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so normally whenever I do this, I grab the Open PSD installation kernel image,
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I save it to slash booleanics, am I running running?
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And that's because typically slash boot is like an unencrypted partition in the front of the
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disk.
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If it's a separate partition at all, typically with VPSes, it is a separate partition
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used, LVM encryption, or something like that, but slash boot is always just kind of an
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EXT partition encrypted, not part of LVM.
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It's always saved with the slash boot, so just, I've got notes in here, just for the
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steps, the CD to slash boot, and then WGIT, the BSD installer, I'm not going to read off
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the URL, but if you go to the Open BSD website and you look for the GIT Open BSD page,
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there's a bunch of mirrors, and you can navigate the mirrors and image you want.
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So what you'll want to find, the latest version, right now at six point, and then I normally
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use the AMD 64 architecture installer, but there's other one on three days.
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And then the file you're looking for is called BSD.rd.
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There's a file called BSD with no extension, that's the idle kernel, and then there's a file
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called BSD.rd, the RD stands for RAM disk, the BSD.rd.
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So once you have a copy of BSD.rd saved somewhere that you can get to slash boot or is where
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I do it.
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Once you get that done, you can reboot, and then during the reboot process you'll see the
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grub menu.
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And inside grub you want to enter the command prompt, so normally when you see grub it's
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just a menu that you can arrow up and down.
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Options, but if you press C, you get a prompt where you can actually type some commands.
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Normally the first command I type is LS.
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If you haven't set a root for grub yet and you type LS, it will show you the available
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disks.
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So I type LS, it shows me what disks are available.
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I set the root by typing set space root equals then in parentheses the disk.
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And it'll be in the show notes too, if you want.
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Then after you set the root, if you want to again you can type LS.
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And this time since you have a root set it will show you the files that are available.
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And that's handy just so you can see, you know, did you set the right disk?
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Type LS and you don't see BSD.rd, maybe you didn't set the right disk and you start over.
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So the grub command to load a BSD, open BSD kernel is K, open BSD, and then the name of the
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disk.
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So in this case it's just K, open BSD, space slash BSD.rd.
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And then type boot and that will boot the BSD installer.
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So I'm not going to walk through the installation process.
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It's one, it's really straightforward.
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Not a GUI like you might be used to.
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It's all text, but ask your questions and you answer.
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Even though it's not point and click and you have to do a little bit of thinking.
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It's probably one of the most straightforward and most of the question, there's the default
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answer and you can just press 90% of the open BSD installation to just present it.
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The installation process is documented on BSD FAQ.
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It's not hard to find, so if you go to the open BSD website, one thing you will have to enter
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is the network settings.
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Again, the default, when I ask you about your network, the default is DHCPs.
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That's one spot where if you're using DHCP, you can just press enter.
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If you're not, you have to type some stuff in.
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And then one final thing you'll need to do that may not be obvious is the open BSD installer
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uses something called Sets and Sets are the groups of files,
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binaries and libraries, man-paid and all that stuff.
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But the open BSD installation is divided up into eight or so what's called Sets.
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And it's going to ask you where the location of your set and I think the default is to use
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a CD or something like that and obviously a CD is not available.
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If you have a CD available, you would just press enter.
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If you're booting from a CD, you would just press enter and that would be the default,
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would be the right answer.
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But in this case, what you want to do is you want to get installation sets off the network,
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off the internet.
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So I'm going to ask you for the location of the sets, just type in HTTP.
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And I feel like it, you know, says which one do you want to use in a list.
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So it's not like you have to remember, oh yeah, with the HTTP.
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So it's HTTP.
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And then it will, it will say, do you want to use this URL?
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And it'll have something in there already.
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So you don't, I know I've done installations before, manner, where you had to like the installation URL
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and type the whole, and that, that kind of terrible.
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But at least in this case, it has, I guess, a set of mirrors.
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So once you type HTTP, it'll ask you if you want to proxy, you just hit enter.
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And then it'll say, you want to use this URL and you just hit enter.
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And then it'll ask you which sets you want to install.
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And it's, it doesn't hurt to just install everything.
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It's very big.
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And even there's some packages, some packages that are associated with X.
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And it's safe to install those.
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So I think that's it for now.
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Hopefully, if I have some time, I'll do another episode or I feel like it.
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And I know enough about to do some shows.
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Maybe not.
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Maybe a good topic.
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We'll see if I do something.
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