> The general trick is get the first OpenBSD install in place. After that, > you can do almost anything you want afterwards. It may be tricky, you may > end up making a stupid error that causes you to "lose" the system, but in > theory, you can do almost anything. :) > > So.. use yaifo with whatever version of OpenBSD you can, then update to 4.9 > or -current. Or a binary overwrite of a very minimal system Or whatever. > If you can get a 500M or 1G root partition with a kernel, baseXX.tgz and > etcXX.tgz, you can build out the rest AFTER you have ssh access to the > system. > > I'd suggest setting up a similar local system which you can "practice" with > -- more similar, the better, but even just "a computer" will help a lot.
I second Nick's suggestion. Initially, on this system only 4.7 release would install due to some NVIDIA USB 2.0 issues. Once I got 4.7 installed, I figured out the problem, and then upgraded to current. good luck
