David, Indeed, I poured through the Man pages & I have a copy of Absolute OpenBSD and I followed the instructions as closely as I could.
I was just pondering if I should install 5.8 & Xenocara (I have a second post on Xenocara) , see how it works and take it from there. I did still want to install of the proper dependencies. Thank You, Paul W. On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 7:44 PM, David <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/11/2016 06:59 PM, Vedanta Teacher wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > Does anyone have experience installing OpenBSD for civilian use > and/or a > > Live CD set? > > > > I have a relatively new Dell Insperon lap top W/6 gigs RAM and 1 TB HDD . > > 3000 series, > > model 3558., Intel i3-5051U so, I'm 99.9%+ sure its an AMD64 type of > chip. > > > > #0: I don't have a Live CD so I tried to download the 5.9 version from a > > HTTP mirror > > in San Francisco ( http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/amd64/ ). I > > burned it to > > a CD but it didn't work. I've gone all of the way from just trying : > > install59.iso > > to burning and trying all of the images on the: > > Index of/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/amd64 > > but nothing worked. > > > <clip> > > Unfortunately, I have no (or at least not recent) experience with > installation of OpenBSD. > > Have you consulted the README and INSTALL.amd64 files? (No snarkiness > intended here.) > > <http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/README> > <http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/amd64/INSTALL.amd64> > > It appears there are some "gotcha" issues with this release per the > README, and the second file gives you the information to use > install59.iso to create the necessary bootable media. > > I don't recall the exact cli command using dd to create the CD, or I'd > pass that on here. If you have other software burning software, you can > use that, or the dd command is easy to locate with your favorite search > engine if needed. > > There are also directions to create a bootable USB as well. > > Hopefully this gets you going in the right direction. > > dafr > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
