HI.

I have OpenBSD3.0 and I would like to install it on my server.
Could some give me a nice how to for doing a remote install?

TIA

I usually do FreeBSD, but I did so a remote OpenBSD install once. I'm sure other people will give a better answer.

If you have a fast connection, then the easiest thing by far (IMHO) is to just use create a boot floopy following the readme instructions on the CD.

Boot the server with the floopy (you might need two, one for the kernel and one for the FS). The install process is more spartan than anything I have seen before, but at the same time it is always very clear what's going on with each step. fdisk and disklabel sort of suck without a curses interface, but after you are over that hump just click yes to the defaults and you're off.


-r

I remember seeing some discussion on this in the past on the openbsd mailing lists. It involved more of a remote upgrade that a remote install (how are you going to connect to a machine w/o an ip address, such as is before installation?) You can find list archives at http://marc.10east.com/?l=openbsd-misc&r=1&w=2 and http://www.monkey.org/cgi-bin/wilma/openbsd-misc

HTH

Installation is very well documented at http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Overview
Outside of having to manually partition the drives. I found this one of the easiest installs ever. and it's only my laziness that took offense to the text based partitioning.