Getting to OpenBSD
 

Hello

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)


thanks
klemen

Yes, lilo will boot it. This info is for freebsd, but it works the same:
http://ldpmirror.ssc.com/HOWTO/Linux+FreeBSD-4.html

Here is more details:
ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3..../INSTALL.linux

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.

Yes OpenBSD rocks ... and above urls are good one to get start with it...

Thanks you for great links, the guide is very good. I will tray to install it in monday.

Dont install from an old set of disks. Use the ftp snapshots. ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/3.6/snapshots They are to-date prepatched.

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/index.html

:)

That link to the ftp site seems to be wrong.

Sorry, I added an extra 3.6

the proper link is ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/<your arch here>/

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.

OOPS ;D