[H-GEN] OpenBSD-3.2 wanted

[Christopher Biggs]

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Harry Phillips <harry at tux.com.au> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

> Christopher Biggs wrote:
>> Greg Black <gjb at gbch.net> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake
>> thusly:
>>
>>>I'm keen to get hold of OpenBSD-3.2 (or 3.3 when it appears),
>>>but don't have the bandwidth/volume allowance to get it over the
>>>Net.
>> Yawhat?  It's a >clickety click< 68M download (not counting X, which
>> adds another 10M or so).
>
> I just checked mirror.aarnet where did you get that 68M figure from?
> The ISO of 3.2 is ~520M

The 500+M .iso version has:

    * the base install
    * all the source code
    * as many pre-compiled binary packages as will fit
    * (room for the audio tracks that fill out the official CD)

To install the OS, all you *need* is the contents of
<http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/OpenBSD/3.2/i386/>, minus any
obviously superfluous floppy images, and minus all the x*tgz files if
you're skipping X-window.

You can, with the right incantation, burn a bootable CD from those
files (create an ISO with all those files in /i386, and set
i386/cdrom32.fs as the boot file), or you can use those files and a
boot floppy to perform an FTP or HTTP install off a convenient nearby
PC.  I install most of my OpenBSD boxen by doing Floppy/FTP install
with the distribution files stored on my desktop PC.

--cjb

p.s. The OpenBSD project is funded mostly through official CD sales,
     hence they do not make an official .ISO available.  Therefore any
     ISO image you find on the net is therefore a *third party*
     unofficial one and may be trojaned or otherwise dodgy.  I
     recommend buying the official CD set to support the project, plus
     you get cool stickers and stuff too.  By all means, download the
     short-form and burn your own CD to get started if you can't wait
     for the official CDs to arrive.
     


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