Hello, I am looking for someone very up to speed on this Open BSD 5.1 distro.. I purchased the cds and installed it on my Acer laptop which went well and then I tried to install the packages for KDE from the other cd and I recieved a message in blue saying something about the cd drive. At the time I was following the directions on the inclosed paperwork as far as mounting and typing the file name and all and it seemed like it was hearing me until it went to look at cd drive then all stopped.? I can get error message if needed once I have someone that knows this issue forwards and backwards. Thanks Tony

Well it's hard to know what the problem might be without the error message.

You also might find more help here: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/%2Absd-17/

since OpenBSD isn't a Linux distribution

Ok, well first I am going to backup one step, I re-installed openbsd 5.1 with disc #2 and all is well. My first question is what disc do I install into cd drive to load packages of KDE from now or is this not poss. yet?? Is it #3 cd? On the pamflet it says Cd#3 contains the source tree in src.tar.gz. Using this tree it is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as described at: http://www.OpenBSD.org/anoncvs.html. Using these files results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect if you were to make a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source treee. Assuming the CD is mounted on /mnt:
# cd / usr/src
# tar xvzf /mnt/src.tar.gz
After this , /usr/src will be a checkout area where all cvs(1) commands will work OK. For more refer: http://www.OpenBSD.org/anoncvs.html

Says it also contains: ports.tar.gz Our ports tree. Refer to CD#3:/PORTS
xenocara.tar.gz A CVS checkout of our version of the X source tree. Important man pages to read are afterboot(8), config(8), and options(4), which will describe how to config your system.

The other part that I was receiving a error message on is after I typed this:
# mkdir -p /cdrom
# mount /dev/cd0a /cdrom
# cd /cdrom/5.1/packages/OpenBSD.amd64
# pkg_add kdebase 3.5.10.p16.tgz ck. sp?
# umount /cdrom

And the first cd is for i386 computers, at least thats what it says on it.

this is how the pamflet say to install packages. So, where to go from here would be a good start I quess. If you have a suggestion....thanks Tony