Re: A guide about running OpenBSD on an usb stick

Sorry, but that's another one of those Linuxisms which just complicate
existing stuff and tries to reinvent wheel in situations when more
simpler solution already exist. To write some guide just because you
need fill up your blog with something doesn't mean that it will be
usable by everyone. What's worst that post will be another one which
will stay on web where it will be searchable so it add to Google (or
whatever search engine) mess and causes headaches to new users or even
admins because there's BUNCH of those posts around, mostly out dated
or even with non complete or simply wrong information inside. And
that's the biggest issue of Linux - a lot of false documents around
instead of correct man pages in system itself. Only some distributions
tries to solve that issue with its Wiki/FAQ pages.

Except of that your post is well formatted, readable, descriptive and
easy to understand. Maybe it can be shorter because if someone doesn't
know how to identify device in some system or doesn't know how to use
dd(1) and what those switches mean (it's all in man dd so no need to
rewrite if something change in dd then your post is wrong that's why
there are man pages in system) then it's normal user which doesn't
know how to administer computer and it's better for him to ask for
help from someone who knows what to do instead of creating another
hackable machine available on the Internet.


On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Shining <[email protected]> wrote:
> I wrote a guide about running OpenBSD from an usb stick. I hope this helps:
>
> http://www.linuxcondom.net/blog/2011/04/21/a-router-with-openbsd-running-on-
> an-usb-memory-stick/
>
>
> -Shining
>
> P.S. Comments and suggestions (even about grammar) are welcome.