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On my laptop I have Slackware 10.1 and a lot of needed programs and data. But i wont to tray openBSD (I heard a lot of good things about it) so I'm interested haw is it working with lilo boot loder. How hard is the install, how much is it to mess it op?
I will install it (openBSD 3.6) from cd-s ( i got them on some unofficial site)
OpenBSD's install is text based (not even curses!). There's a good guide for it on www.openbsd.org which I used the first time I installed an OpenBSD system.If you're willing to do a little reading (particularly about the fdisk and disklabel parts of the install procedure), it's not that bad.
I just checked the ftp and they have just released the 3.7 version which was predicted to be released around the 19th. I have 4 OpenBSD boxes, 2 for experiments and always keep current copies of these files at hand
bsd (x replacing current version number)
bsd.rd
base3x.tgz
comp3x.tgz
etc3x.tgz
floppy3x.fs
man3x.tgz
misc3x.tgz and the x-files
so whenever Installing or upgrading I can use my own ftp from the command line
if you go to ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.7 you can see that the 3.7 hasn't been released there yet but this directory contains the release version only (not a patched snapshot version). I guess that in this case we can get a pre-release 3.7 from the snapshots before its official ftp release, but I got my 3.7 disks about a week ago. Best of luck with your installation.
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