On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 12:44:00PM GMT, Roderich wrote:
> Dear Sirs!
Hi Rodrigo,
> I am having some problems with the (new?) installer. I want to install
> OpenBSD 5.8 off-line.
>
> (1) I burned a CD Rom with install58.iso, it booted, but when it
> asks for the location of installation sets, it does not offer
> cdrom, only disk and http.
You sure it wasn't cd58.iso by any chance?
> (2) I tried to install with PXE Boot, I booted bsd.rd from another
> machine that also offered the sets with http to 10.0.0.1/5.8/i386,
> but the installation program did not find the sets. I went to
> shell and the sets could inded be fetched with "ftp" program from
> that location. BTW ftp is also not offered, only disc and http.
You need index.txt in the directory which contains the sets on the http
server:
cd $DIR && ls -nT > index.txt
Also, FTP has been removed as the source of sets in 5.7[0].
> (3) It is nice to have an installation program, but nicer for me
> would be to have instructions for installing OpenBSD with the shell
> offered. I am sure I can do it with some experimenting, but there
> would remain doubts that all was well done, for example regarding
> permissions.
Installer works just fine for majority of people/use cases. Why would
you want to do the install manually?
Not sure what you mean by "permissions".
Regards,
Raf
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