On 2016-05-12 20:03:39, John Jason Jordan <joh...@comcast.net> wrote: > On Fri, 13 May 2016 07:34:44 +0900 > Bryan Linton <p...@shoshoni.info> dijo: > > >>><http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/amd64/install59.iso> > > >> I just downloaded it. Did I get the latest snapshot? > > >No, the 5.9 indicates that it is a release directory. The latest > >snapshot would be at: > > http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/ > > > >Also, one of the OpenBSD developers runs this site: > > https://rhaalovely.net/up2date.html > > > >It's updated daily with the dates and times of the snapshots on > >all OpenBSD mirrors, so you can check and see which ones have the > >latest snapshot before downloading. > > Obviously I am not nearly smart enough to use BSD, since I can't make > heads or tails of the folders and what is what. > > I should add that my motivation is to have the latest snapshot > available at the Clinic this Sunday. The reason I want to download it > ahead of time is that we have poor bandwidth at Free Geek, especially > with a dozen Linux-heads in the room all trying to use it at the same > time. > > I anticipated being able to find an ISO of the install files, to be > burned to optical media or USB drive. Apparently that thinking is wrong. >
I wouldn't be quite so self deprecating :) If I came across as anything other than wanting to be genuinely helpful, then I apologize. After re-reading my original message, I can see how it could be interpreted as sounding somewhat curt. If that was how it came across, then I apologize for wording myself poorly. OpenBSD just does things differently is all. I'm sure figuring out how the various Linux distros package their CDs also had a small learning curve at first too. Indeed, since I'm not a Linux user, I find that I myself have had a hard time figuring out which ISO to download from certain distros. As another poster pointed out, http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/install60.iso would indeed be the latest snapshot. Be careful of the other .iso in the OpenBSD directories, it's meant to be used more like a bootable floppy (the ~8 MB filesize should be a giveaway that it couldn't contain the entire system anyway) and used for net installs. http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html Might be a good place to have bookmarked for everyone at the clinic. It's focused on getting and installing OpenBSD, so odds are any common issues will have a solution posted there. Again, I apologize if my original message came across as being curt. My intention really was to try and be helpful, since I know getting over the first hurdle of installing OpenBSD tends to be people's biggest stumbling block, and I welcome any and all people who want to give OpenBSD a try! :) -- Bryan _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug