Contributed by Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd on from the imagine an image dept.
In a commit touching quite a few files, Theo recently renamed the installation images from installXX.fs
to installXX.img
:
Date: Sun, 17 May 2020 11:04:29 -0600 (MDT) From: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@openbsd.org> To: source-changes@openbsd.org Subject: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: src CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: src Changes by: deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org 2020/05/17 11:04:29 Modified files: distrib/alpha/miniroot: Makefile distrib/amd64/iso: Makefile ... bin/dd : dd.1 usr.sbin/ldomctl: ldomctl.8 Log message: Change install images called *.fs to *.img. These are UFS filesystem images, but additionally have a bootblock in the first 8K (since UFS does not use that space). There are some UEFI direct-from-internet bootloaders that require the name *.img. So this makes things more convenient for those, while keeping it consistant in all architectures. ok kettenis beck kn
This means that with recent snapshots, you should use the .img file to prepare your installation medium, where you were previously using the .fs file. It also means that you can install 'direct-from-internet' on these fancy UEFI machines! Note that if you want to install the OpenBSD 6.7 release, you still need to use install67.fs.
(Comments are closed)