Installing Openbsd

[beowolf]

Hi

I was wondering if anyone in here has documented how they went about installing openbsd? i am interested in installing but i am a bit weary after reading the install.zaurus file as it looks some what complex.

is there an "easier" step by step how to?

Thanks  

 

[wormwood]

http://think-toomuch.blogspot.com/2005/05/...sd-install.html

I've heard people have had success with the above.

-wormwood

[beowolf]

http://think-toomuch.blogspot.com/2005/05/...sd-install.html

I've heard people have had success with the above.

-wormwood
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Thanks for the link ..

i will give it a try.

[obscurite]

http://think-toomuch.blogspot.com/2005/05/...sd-install.html

I've heard people have had success with the above.

-wormwood
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What did you personally use?

[wormwood]

I used the INSTALL.zaurus. I think alot of users are initially turned off to it due to its enormous size  . The link I posted above is just over a page long and shows how to install OpenBSD on the Z. Alot of the material in the INSTALL.zaurus is a copy and paste from other architecture's INSTALL.* adding some illusionary bulk (good info none the less) Someone could easily write a a mini-INSTALL.zaurus in a page or two.
*points at barryg*

However as barryg stated:

[flamegear engagage]
OpenBSD installation assumes that the reader has thourouly done their
homework *before* installing it. Meaning the audience has already read
and reread the installation documentation, browsed through the openbsd
faq[] for general queries, read though the archives other user
experiences and notes.

OpenBSD was never designed for the majority of linux users and PDA
market in general. It is mainly a product of geeks that enjoy creating
secure code and systems. Hence its appeal usually is strong on the
systems and network administrator types as well as the developer people.
It is *not* aimed at mass market. (This is harsh to a geek exposed
mainly to linux environment but that is reality, browse a few months
worth of the openbsd-misc mailing list).
[/flamegear disengage]

-wormwood

[barryg]

Good Day!

I used the INSTALL.zaurus. I think alot of users are initially turned
off to it due to its enormous size  :o.

I also used INSTALL.zaurus, and was calmed by it's similarity with
OpenBSD installs on the i386, amd64, macppc and alpha platforms. ;)

The link I posted above is just over a page long and shows how to
install OpenBSD on the Z.

And out of date as soon as the OpenBSD developers update the system.
Peruse the openbsd-cvs[0], and observe how code and documentation commits
happen simultaneous ly, no code is committed without it's accompanying
documentation.

[rant engage]
I *hate* crawling the web for Linux HOWTOs and FAQs.  After installing
and using Red Hat, Debian and Gentoo Linux, doing a `man -k $SUBJECT` on
an OpenBSD box is heaven.
[rant disengage]

 
    <SNIP>
Someone could easily write a a mini-INSTALL.zaurus in a
page or two. *points at barryg* :D
-wormwood

;)  Nice one.  Hehehe.




Mabuhay! barryg


[0]
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-cvs

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