[nflug] openBSD

eric eric at bootz.us
Wed Nov 29 19:13:56 EST 2006


Nice! whip me, beat me, pull my hair LOL

So everything under i386 should be on the cd?

Sam Stern wrote:

>Eric,
>
>Bsd.rd is the initrd for openbsd nothing more you really need to Install ALL
>sets. Including games. Make certain your bios has PnP set to BIOS and not
>OS. Follow the tutorial steps closely; print them out if possible. The
>install process is rather user hostile (more so than even debian) but that's
>OpenBSD for you!
>
>Sam S.
>
>  
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: nflug-bounces at nflug.org 
>>[mailto:nflug-bounces at nflug.org] On Behalf Of eric
>>Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 02:59 PM
>>To: nflug at nflug.org
>>Subject: Re: [nflug] openBSD
>>
>>whoops!
>>
>>When all the selected distribution sets has been extracted, you
>>	will be allowed to select which time zone your system will be
>>	using, all the device nodes needed by the installed system will
>>	be created for you, and the file systems will be unmounted.  For
>>	this to work properly, it is expected that you have installed
>>	at least the "base40", "etc40", and "bsd" distribution sets.
>>
>>I'm gonna take a guess that bsd.rd does not contain base40 and etc40
>>
>>yes, I did make the right partition "active"
>>
>>Another thing I realized is that the install doesn't 
>>recognize my network card pcimcia, 
>>I am worried that it is not compatible, 
>>but hoping I can install drivers at a later time, or maybe 
>>the bios needs some changing.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Sam Stern wrote:
>>
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>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: nflug-bounces at nflug.org 
>>>>[mailto:nflug-bounces at nflug.org] On Behalf Of eric
>>>>Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 02:39 PM
>>>>To: nflug at nflug.org
>>>>Subject: [nflug] openBSD
>>>>
>>>>Thanks.
>>>>
>>>>After I partition my drive I  install bsd.rd? ...I am missing a step
>>>>after this because the system is not mountable when I 
>>>>        
>>>>
>>reboot, also is
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>>>>this package enough to run ssh?  I am installing openBSD 4.0
>>>>
>>>>Should I be using cd40.iso instead of bsd.rd?  My computer is 
>>>>a winbook
>>>>xli with a pcimcia network card.
>>>>
>>>>I can't wait to read the response :)
>>>>   
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Did you complete the installation routine and mark the 
>>>      
>>>
>>partition as active?
>>    
>>
>>>OpenBSD installations since about 3.1 have taken care of 
>>>      
>>>
>>most of the other
>>    
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>>>magic. 
>>>
>>>Have you worked through the troubleshooting faq?
>>>
>>>http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#InstProb
>>>
>>>Once that is complete, your next step is updating the system 
>>>      
>>>
>>and installing
>>    
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>>>ports. OpenSSH is already installed by default.
>>>
>>>HTH
>>>
>>>Sam S.
>>>
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