open BSD rocks

8 Jun

Open BSD install

very cool install.. made the install cd.
boot off of cd.. follow the instructions from web page and you have an openbsd box.
only thing on the web site install instructions, is it is expecting you to dual boot.. so if you are not going to dual boot just make sure the primary partition starts at 0 instead of 203. after basic install, i followed instructions from website using the pkg_add command and installed several packages. They ALL worked. awesome.

install webmin after basic install – follow instructions from webmin page, it actually worked.

follow these instructions for installing other software….

For instance, to install the Gimp package for the 3.5 release on an i386 machine off the ftp site (including dependencies), do:

# setenv PKG_PATH ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.5/packages/i386/
# pkg_add ${PKG_PATH}gimp-1.2.5.tgz

you can get a list of packages from this web site..

http://www.openbsd.org/3.5_packages/i386.html

base install for kde kdebase-3.2.1.tgz
system monitors gkrellm-2.1.27.tgz
samba connection to windulls samba-2.2.8a.tgz this also install swat.. very cool every worked first time. no muss no fuss.