On 2022-08-14, Stuart Longland <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 13 Aug 2022 14:29:29 +0200 > Omar Polo <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 2022/08/13 13:32:10 +0300, Tuzson Zoltan <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On the link, when I downloaded and I try to write to the USB with Rufus or >> > Etcher, I got the error message, that the install71.iso it is not a >> > bootable file? >> > What can I do? >> >> Never used Rufus before, but I think you need to download >> install71.img if you plan to use an USB stick for the installation. > > If I was to guess… it'd be because the ISO images provided by many > Linux distributions are actually hybrid MS-DOS disklabels / CD images. > > The ISO9660 specification leaves the first sector free so that you can > do things like include a MS-DOS disklabel and boot-sector, thus > allowing your "ISO image" to also be bootable when written to a disk drive. > > I'm not sure the `install71.iso` does this.
It does not, it's just a plain iso not this type of hybrid. > Furthermore, there's mention of a XFCE LiveCD: no such animal in > OpenBSD. `install71.iso` provides the installer (and maybe the disk > sets too), it doesn't have XFCE, or any live GUI environment. You'll > find you'll need to boot the installer, perform an install (which will > be a text-based application), then reboot -- that will get you a CLI > environment. > > From there, you'll have to install XFCE yourself; something along the > lines of `pkg_add xfce` will get you maybe 70% of the way there (in > that it'll install XFCE, you may then have to do some configuration to > set up XenoDM or similar to actually launch XFCE when you log in … or > to launch it when you run `exec startx` from the CLI.). "pkg_add xfce" will point at a pkg-readme file when installed, which should be followed. -- Please keep replies on the mailing list.
