[geeks] OpenBSD installer...

[Jim O'Gorman]

You need to configure XFree86, it does not have a working config on a
fresh install.

Some call the OpenBSD install sparse, I think of it as clean..

Jim

On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 0:13:44 +0000, Lionel Peterson
<lionel4287 at verizon.net> wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I just installed OpenBSD 3.5 on an Ultra 1/170, and it was like a time-warp!
> What a retro installer - it feels like the old RH Linux installer, just a
> series of questions without any meaningful help available. You really have to
> know what you are doing...
> 
> For example, when it asks you to pick the software packages to install, it
> displays a list, with about 40% pre-selected. You can choose "all" (I did),
> and then it proceeds to "get" the packages from your selected source, and then
> it asks you what packages you want to install, but this time, the previously
> selected software is not pre-selected... WTF is that?
> 
> Anyway, once it was installed, I tried doing a "startx", but there was an
> error. Checking the log, it seems it couldn't identify the framebuffer - WTF?
> Its a TGX+ (CG6), what was it expecting to see in an SBUS SPARC? (Yes, the CG6
> is on the compatible hardware list)
> 
> Argh.
> 
> Sorry, had to vent - anyone have some pointers on working with OpenBSD on an
> UltraSPARC desktop? I'd like it to be a firewall appliance, but first I want
> it to be a general desktop (to get used to it on the hardware)...
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Lionel
> lionel 4287 at verizon net
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