On 27.11., Clay Daniels wrote: > I have successfully installed OpenBSD 6.6 release and would like to give > the Current Snapshots a try. I went to a mirror, and to: > > Index of /pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/ > > I saw install66.fs (probably for usb memstick) and install66.iso (surely > for a cd/dvd) at ~450Mb. I picked the install66.fs, wrote it to a usb > thumbdrive, and it starts the install. When i get into the install it asks > where are the file sets? Humm, maybe it gets these online and it tries to > do this but no luck. It was late last night, and I checked to see if it had > written anything to my disk, which it had not, and went to bed. This > evening I'm looking a bit deeper at the snapshot directory and I suspect I > need to provide the install with base66.tzg at ~239Mb. > > My question now is after downloading the base, do I need to un-tar it, and > how to I provide it to the install? I wrote the install66.fs to the usb > with the dd command. Not clear to me how to either manually copy the base > file set to the usb, or maybe leave it on an accessible directory on my > machine. Any help would be appreciated. > > Clay Daniels
I would recommend using sysupgrade(8) with the parameter -s to you. Cheers, Bruno
