OFInst

GUI installer application for NetBSD operating system. Client/server structured, built on a top of RWE protocol it can perform advanced remote installations.

Getting OFInst

You can get test install CD for NetBSD 4 BETA here. Have in mind that this is still beta quality software.

To check out the GUI client source you need Mercurial. At this time there are no official releases. You only need to do this in case you plan to run installer in remote mode of operation:

Requirements

For running install CD you will need i386/amd64 PC that can boot from the CD and has VESA compatible video card installed.

For running GUI client you will need:

• Python
• wxPython
• Twisted

On NetBSD Python is available from pkgsrc in lang/python24, wxPython in wip/py-wxWidgets-unicode and Twisted in wip/py-twisted.

Running OFInst

1)* Boot install CD and choose 'n' when prompted to choose type of install.

2)* Boot install CD and choose 'y' when prompted to choose type of install.

GUI part of the installer can be started like this:

Thanks

Big thanks to:

Marcin Jessa (http://www.yazzy.org) for providing the build/test XEN host.

Nikolay Kalev (http://www.microbsd.net) for "pretty colors".

Alaric Snell-Pym (http://www.snell-pym.org.uk) for suggestions, finding it useful(or he is a great liar) and SCSI testing ;).

Ada (http://adrien.auzanneau.name) for hosting ISOs.