English Page about OpenBSD LiveCD

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What's this?

This is the Live CD which was built from OpenBSD, featuring;

Similar to HDD installation
This Live CD was intended to be similar to HDD installation as much as possible.
After CD booting, you can login to the environment like the one which was just installed on HDD.
In this environment, many ordinary files have replaced to symbolic links.
Portable workplace
You can save your own environment into Floppy Disk and/or USB flash. Then you will be able to retrieve it at next boot time.
Low hardware requirements
Unless you will use X, this LiveCD requires 22MB of memory to run.
Additional Softwares
Some softwares were added from ports or building from other source packages. See following software list.
Useful for Japanese users
Kernel and Time Zone are set to JST. And some softwares are configured to use Japanese.

Software List

Base System
OpenBSD 3.9Operating System
Network
fetchmailPOP/IMAP client
procmailemail proccessing filter
w3mweb browser
rdesktopremote desktop client for Windows
rsyncremote file synchronization
Mewemail client (works on Emacs)
RieceIRC client (works on Emacs)
Emacs-w3mweb browser (works on Emacs)
DeleGatemulti-purpose proxy server
Media
xvimage viewer
mplayermedia player
Other tools
bashBourne again shell
bzip2, unzipfile compression/expand
screentext screen manager
Rubyobject oriented script language
GaucheScheme language interpreter
IceWMwindow manager
ROX-Filerfiler
Emacs 22text editor
For Japanese
ktermKanji terminal emulator
jlessfile pager
nkfcharacter code converter
freefonts,
ja-fonts-funet,
ja-fonts-gnu
Japanese fonts
Navi2ch, Mona font2ch BBS browser
MigemoJapanse direct incremental search

How to use

Download

Compressed ISO images are at http://kaw.ath.cx/dl/pub/OpenBSD/LiveCD/ .
Get and make it uncompressed

ftp http://kaw.ath.cx/dl/pub/OpenBSD/LiveCD/CD-OpenBSD-3.9.iso.bz2
bzip2 -d CD-OpenBSD-3.9.iso.bz2

or

ftp http://kaw.ath.cx/dl/pub/OpenBSD/LiveCD/CD-OpenBSD-3.9.iso.gz
gzip -d CD-OpenBSD-3.9.iso.gz

Burn CD-R

Burn the ISO image into CD-R or CD-RW.

cdrecord -v dev=/dev/cd0c CD-OpenBSD-3.9.iso

cdrecord can be installed from ports or packages.

Booting

After booting from CD, some user inputs will be prompted;

511 MB of memory available for you.
your mfs size in megabytes? [default: 255] -> 

Only entering "ENTER", half amount of attached memory is specified by default.

Allocating 255 MB for mfs.

Choose the way of boot

Select boot method;
   0: CD-ROM only
   1: CD-ROM only (for low mem)
   2: CD-ROM + USB flash
   3: CD-ROM + tar.gz on floppy
   4: CD-ROM + interactive shell
-->0
0 CD-ROM only mode
Booting with CD-ROM only. Some parameters are needed to be entered manually.
1 CD-ROM only mode (for low mem)
Same as above.
But, under /usr are all read only.
2 CD-ROM + USB flash mode
After CD boot, extract files which were stored in USB flash. (to be more described)
3 CD-ROM + .tar.gz floppy mode
Same as above, but extracting from floppy disk. (to be more described)
4 CD-ROM + interactive shell mode
After CD boot, single user shell invoked. This is intended for system debug.

At first, you should enter mode 0 (recommended) or mode 1.

Copying files from CD-ROM to mfs ... done
Linking files from mfs to CD-ROM ... done

Choose keyboard type

Set your keyboard type;
tables available for pc-xt/pc-at keyboard: encoding us de de.nodead fr dk 
dk.nodead it uk jp sv sv.nodead no no.nodead us.declk us.dvorak 
us.swapctrlcaps us.iopener jp.swapctrlcaps fr.swapctrlcaps be.swapctrlcaps 
us.swapctrlcaps.dvorak us.swapctrlcaps.iopener es be ru ua sg sg.nodead sf 
sf.nodead pt lt la br tr tr.nodead pl hu si
-> us

Enter root password twice

Set your root password.....
Please wait.....
Changing local password for root.
New password:
Retype new password:

Setting network parameters.

Setting up network configurations? -> y
your host name (without domain)? -> nimbus5
Setting up IP network configurations? [n, 4, 6 or 46]-> 46
========================================
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 33224
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
dc0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        address: 00:00:39:58:cf:05
        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
        status: active
        inet6 fe80::200:39ff:fe58:cf05%dc0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
pflog0: flags=0<> mtu 33224
pfsync0: flags=0<> mtu 2020
enc0: flags=0<> mtu 1536
========================================
your network interface? -> dc0
your FQDN? -> nimbus5.localnet
your DNS servers?
(up to three IPv4/6 addresses, separated by spaces)
-> 192.168.18.254
your IPv4 addr or "dhcp"? -> 192.168.18.25
your netmask? -> 255.255.255.0
your default gateway? -> 192.168.18.254
Generate cryptographic keys? -> y

... then you will see login prompt

Tips

Details will be written in future.

What can I do after boot?

Almost same as normal installation on HDD.

How to change TimeZone

Re-link /etc/localtime, and set system clock manually.

Saving and restoring the modified files

Use /boottmp/usbfadm to save in USB flash.
And /boottmp/fdadm for floppy disk.

Adding other softwares

Usual way as in HDD installation.
Packages and ports are also OK.

Changing window manager

Edit ~/.xinitrc

Can I rebuild my own CD-ROM image?

Yes.

Can I install this LiveCD to HDD?

Yes.

Message Board

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