I've just run into a slightly confusing situation during an install
using install67.fs on a USB stick, and wondered whether it might be
worth adding something to http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html
"Installation Guide " to clarify what to do.
I was installing onto a second 32 GB USB stick on a Lenovo x220.
At the "Let's install the sets!" stage, the installer asks:
Location of sets? (disk http nfs or 'done') [http]
At this stage networking was not working due to missing firmware, so i
entered "disk" to use the sets from install67.fs on the install USB
stick.
Then it asks:
Is the disk partition already mounted? [yes]
I wasn't sure about the correct answer here. It turns out that you need
to say "no".
But it then lists the disk on which it is installing OpenBSD
(containing the partitions that were created by the installer earlier):
Available disks are: sd0.
I eventually got things to work by unplugging and re-plugging the USB
install stick before answering "no" to "Is the disk partition already
mounted? [yes]". This feels slightly unsafe of course, but presumably
the installer has copied everything into the ramdisk kernel in memory by
this point?
Thereafter, things worked fine:
Available disks are: sd0 sd1.
Which disk contains the install media? (or 'done') [sd1]
a: 928768 [...]
i: 960 [...]
Available sd1 partitions are: a i
Which sd1 partition has the install sets? (or 'done') [a]
Pathname to the sets? (or 'done') [6.7/amd64]
And the sets were found and installed with no further problems.
Would it be worth me coming up with some text to add to
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html explaining this? Or maybe my
installing onto a second USB stick is unusual and might have caused the
issue?
Thanks,
- Jules
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