YaifO is a modified OpenBSD installer for remote installations or updates via Secure Shell. It has been tested and should work on Alpha, i386, Sparc and Sparc64. It is especially useful for people who like to switch their root server from Linux to OpenBSD without access to a serial line or keyboard.
Yet another installer for OpenBSD
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See also Depenguinator (similar remote installer for FreeBSD)
http://www.daemonology.net/depenguinator/
LOL “depengiunator”
Its a sickening name showing bsd guys attitude towards Linux
OpenBSD doesn’t contain installer, what?
Oh yeah, I’m feeling a little queasy over here…
“Its a sickening name showing bsd guys attitude towards Linux”
1) Its not an insult. It installs bsd over a Linux Install (remote). What else would you call it. “the program that installs bsd over linux remote program”. The title is a bit long in humble opinion.
2) Lump all bsd users and developers into a snobbish arena (Free, Net, Open, DragonFly, MirOS, et al), because you don’t like the name of a program.
3) Propgate myths that bsd users are snobbish. I can go to slashdot and choose a couple of choice sentances from linux users and make some judgements about the whole community. Now would that be fair?
“1) Its not an insult.”
it is. you can try calling it working around that.
“2) Lump all bsd users and developers into a snobbish aren”
why concentrate on linux?. freebsd did it before. now openbsd does it. i run both openbsd and linux and still find that attitude totally ignorant
“. I can go to slashdot and choose a couple of choice sentances from linux users and make some judgements about the whole community. Now would that be fair?”
no. but whole programs officially done by the core developers certainly make a difference. same slashdot has a whole lot of bsd people too. so its not a linux site at all
This reminds me of suck.com’s suckdot spoof.
“Linux Possibly Defamed Somewhere”.
Get a grip, some people can’t take a joke.
http://www.suck.com/daily/99/12/13/daily.html
Its just a name man don’t worry. Besides, IIRC, there’s a program which does the very same on a BSD box; ie. it installs Linux on it. Not sure how its called… Gods hands?
Not until OpenBSD makes some efforts to make it have a modular smp kernel.
OpenBSD currently has SMP support on i386 and AMD64. PPC SMP is either present or in the works, I can’t remember. There are good reasons not to use modules, and they have been explained on the mailing lists. Read up.
The primary and almost only focus of openbsd is security. it puts scalability and modularity less important to them. yes there are balances in between. if you want something more generic try something like linux,freebsd,dragonfly or your favorite solaris?
I do not care about the security of the ‘base install’. I care about having a modular kernel that i can secure myself. It’s open source afterall.
I know I get the debates in my e-mail all the time.
Thanks for the polite response and I still LOVE OpenBSD as a workstation OS and routing server.
“I care about having a modular kernel that i can secure myself. It’s open source afterall. ”
I find that comment pretty strange. having the facility to load modules adds to the risk. i dont think you can actually secure openbsd by a module. afaik only linux does that with LSM using a set of hooks but even then it doesnt actually override existing security infrastructure atleast in policy.
opensource doesnt mean we go on adding everything to the OS or follow others blindly. if openbsd copied or did everything like freebsd where would be the difference.
openbsd is targetted towards routers or edge of the network computers. you can choose to run it on the database server or desktop but the onus would solely lie on you.
there are other operating systems suitable for that. pick a choice that suits you. we certainly arent out of choice there…
It is open source, so feel free to modify it as you see fit. The kernel supports modules, although that isn’t tested well (at all?), except by Darren Reed.
Personally, I don’t see a point in modules, they only really add complexity. More support for customized kernels (or a slightly modified GENERIC) would be nice though.
I personally love how OpenBSD has identified its niche (security) and has ran with it. Rather than trying to be everything to everyone, OpenBSD benefits from a focus on its primary goals. The end result is that it is the absolute finest choice of OS if you want to setup something like a NAT/gateway/firewall box to protect the rest of your network. The guys who run that project seem to understand the mantra “the right tool for the right job”.
If you want modules in the kernel, and you want a fancy finely grained SMP model, there are other alternatives (ie. FreeBSD, Linux), but there will be trade-offs too. It all depends on what you want.
Excellent. YaifO appears to be exactly what I’ve looking for. Although the OpenBSD installation process is a snap I’ve never been fond of the upgrade procedure, nor have I been inclined to attempt it remotely. Hopefully, this should solve some real headaches in that regard.