Booting a Thinkpad T23

[jared r r spiegel]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 10:39:30AM -0700, sweetnsourbkr wrote:
>
> The packages aren't included in cd40.iso, are they?

  no.  you're correct.  no install sets (base40.tgz, comp40.tgz, etc)
  or packages are in the cdXY.iso.

> From what I understand,
> I must either do what I did, or burn 2 CDs, one for the boot process and the
> other one for packages, right?

  seeing as how you mentioned already having gone through 3 CDs, that
  may have turned out to have been more economical <G>.

  the kernel image on the cdXY.iso uses an in-kernel ramdisk and
  by the time you're at the 'Install Upg Shell?', it no longer
  needs physical access to the media off which it was booted.

  at that point you could pop out the cd??.iso CD and pop in a second
  CD that you made who has the install sets (just burn the whole
  OpenBSD/4.0/i386/* dir to avoid forgetting something).

  when the install gets to the point of looking for the install sets,
  if you tell it that the files are on CD, it will ask you which
  cdrom drive (in case you have more than one) and then it will mount
  it and you can select which sets to install.

--

  jared

[John Gould]

On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, sweetnsourbkr wrote:

> John Gould wrote:
>>
>> Burn a single session CD-R it should just work! Why are you trying to make
>> and boot a multi session CD? There really is no need!
>>
>
> The packages aren't included in cd40.iso, are they?  From what I understand,
> I must either do what I did, or burn 2 CDs, one for the boot process and the
> other one for packages, right?
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No there not, but if I were you I'd burn a single session CD using
cd40.iso and a separate CD containing the packages. Alternatively you
could just burn cd40.iso, install and then use pkg_add to grab whatever
packages you want off whatever site is convenient to you.

Best regards John.