Re: need help choosing appropriate BSD distro

On 22 Jun 2007 17:31:15 GMT, "Joachim Schipper"
<jdNoOtSPAMschipper@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

As noted, PC-BSD is not OpenBSD. But yes, that complaint would be valid.

Speaking of OpenBSD, is there an installation iso file to burn on a
CD? I see lots of files, some iso files, but nothing very large.

In this directory (or do BSD users call them folders?) on one of the
US mirrors :

/pub/OpenBSD/4.1/i386

the largest file is under 100 MB.

And I don't see an "installation" iso image. Maybe I'm looking in the
wrong place, though.

Is this an OS that you have to boot with one disk, piece things
together from another disk or two, etc.?

Or is there a simple way to install it? I don't need a live CD (would
be nice, though) but would prefer to not have to learn a lot of things
just to install it. From the installation instructions on the web
site, it does not look easy and it looks like it might wipe out
everything on the hard drive if I understand the wording of the
instructions:

"Install: load OpenBSD onto the system, overwriting whatever may have
been there. Note that it is possible to leave some partitions
untouched in this process, such as a /home, but otherwise, assume
everything else is overwritten."

I'll hold off on doing anything with this until I hear about how to do
this properly without overwriting everything on the disk. All I want
to destroy is my second (/) and third partition (/swap) on the drive.
.

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