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Subject: Installing
From: Bill Cunningham
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I get on www.openbsd.org website several "groups" ending in .tgz
extension. Indicating gtar of course. Now in net install linux can this be
done with the BSD unixes linux open and net BSD? I want CLI and GUI access.
What's the minimum to have to install to boot. I know base.tgz but it needs
to be installed from an enviornment.

Subject: Re: Installing
From: Bill Cunningham
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"Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> wrote in message
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>I get on www.openbsd.org website several "groups" ending in .tgz
> extension. Indicating gtar of course. Now in net install linux can this be
> done with the BSD unixes linux open and net BSD? I want CLI and GUI
> access.
> What's the minimum to have to install to boot. I know base.tgz but it
> needs
> to be installed from an enviornment.

miniboot.fs and install61.iso I write to the USB and well they don't
seem to be bootable. Install61.iso certainly isn't. My architecture is
AMD64.

<shrug>

Bill

Subject: Re: Installing
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On 2017-06-11, Bill Cunningham <nospam@nspam.invalid> wrote:
>
> "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> wrote in message
> news:ohk617$i6v$1@dont-email.me...
>>I get on www.openbsd.org website several "groups" ending in .tgz
>> extension. Indicating gtar of course. Now in net install linux can this be
>> done with the BSD unixes linux open and net BSD? I want CLI and GUI
>> access.
>> What's the minimum to have to install to boot. I know base.tgz but it
>> needs
>> to be installed from an enviornment.
>
> miniboot.fs and install61.iso I write to the USB and well they don't
> seem to be bootable. Install61.iso certainly isn't. My architecture is
> AMD64.
>

My guess is either flaky/old hardware or incorrectly built media. My
experience with OpenBSD is that it tolerates old hardware reasonably
well. The oldest motherboard I've used with 6.0/6.1 is from 2011.
All my motherboards these days are AMD.

For me ... booting from a USB stick built via

.. plug usb stick into another OpenBSD host
.. note device id. For me, it frequently ends up at, _sd4_
.. run
sudo dd if=.../amd64/install61.fs of=/dev/rsd4c bs=4M

similar commands should work on other OSes.

I install from ISOs on vmware guests with no issues. I install from both
official ISOs and installNN.fs as pulled from the OpenBSD ftp site in
addition to custom ones I build (from errata updates).

--
ratfood@food.skaterat.net
All foods should be removed to reply

Subject	Author
Installing	Bill Cunningham
Re: Installing	Bill Cunningham
Re: Installing	John McGrail