[rescue] Re: OpenBSD ISOs

[Robert Novak]

On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 11:51:55PM -0500, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > Anyone know where I can get them?  It appears that OpenBSD.org wants me to
> > purchase their CD-Roms, which I don't have money for (at least not at this
> 
> If you search the mailing lists you can come across a palce in hungary
> that has "unoffical" ISOs.
> 
> Or you can borrow my complete set and burn or image them yourself.

Yeah, the layout is supposedly copyrighted (last I heard on the matter) to
keep people from distributing ISO images and detracting from income from
the purchase of official CDs.

I usually just grab the appropriate dir with wget, something like:

	wget -nH -np -m -r ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.0/sparc/

and mkisofs it myself. (And then when it shows up at my local shop, I buy
it sometimes.)  Just put it under 3.0/{platform}/ in your image root and
you can follow the install instructions to the letter. For SPARC and
SPARC64 you don't have to have the El Torito magic like on Intel, so it
should be fairly painless. I think most of the other non-Intel platforms
can boot like that as well.

--Rob

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