In my experience the key to an easy OBSD install is to start with a bootable fs, on a disk, a usbkey, a cd, floppy ... whatever. Copy the mfs boot (eg https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/?.?/amd64/bsd.rd) for your target rev into, say /bsd.XX.rd and reboot. When prompted enter "boot bsd.XX.rd" and away you go. If you're using obscure network hardware/connex that needs firmware or such to work, a USB ethernet dongle (or just a common card) can get you around lots of grief.
Dhu On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 19:03:27 +0100 Julian Smith <ju...@op59.net> wrote: > 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 > > -- > http://op59.net > > > -- Je suis Canadien. Ce n'est pas Francais ou Anglaise. C'est une esp`ece de sauvage: ne obliviscaris, vix ea nostra voco;-)
