[PLUG] Does anyone have experience installing OpenBSD and/or a Live CD I could use?
Vedanta Teacher
orevedantateacher at gmail.com
Thu May 12 01:59:27 UTC 2016
Greetings,
Does anyone have experience installing OpenBSD for civilian use and/or a
Live CD set?
I have a relatively new Dell Insperon lap top W/6 gigs RAM and 1 TB HDD .
3000 series,
model 3558., Intel i3-5051U so, I'm 99.9%+ sure its an AMD64 type of chip.
#0: I don't have a Live CD so I tried to download the 5.9 version from a
HTTP mirror
in San Francisco ( http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/amd64/ ). I
burned it to
a CD but it didn't work. I've gone all of the way from just trying :
install59.iso
to burning and trying all of the images on the:
Index of/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/amd64
but nothing worked.
#1: I do have other live CD's so I popped the one for OpenSUSE in and the
message
"Welcome to Grub" popped up. So I have the UEFI/BIOS configured correctly.
(Blessings to Dell for having such awesome support pages & BIOS settings-
IMHO they are much better that ASUS or HP .)
#2: I'm thinking that I'm pulling & burning the wrong images from HTTP but
I just
don't have enough experience on pulling things off of mirror sites and
making them
work.
#3: I will be at the clinic Sunday with the machine & an extra machine to
burn
images. I'm open to ideas. *But, Don't Do It For Me *, just show me how. If
you
do it for me I'll never learn.
Finally, before everybody flames me just remember. Unlike people that sit on
a distro for years and never change, I'm always willing to push the limits
of my
knowledge, take chances and learn new things. And everybody was a newbie
at some point, I'm just a newbie @ OpenBSD.
Blessings,
Paul W.
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