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BTW: They do distribute iso images. You just have to grab them off the ftp server.
by Dobbs 17y ago
BTW: They do distribute iso images. You just have to grab them off the ftp server.
- chops 17y agoAnd their ISO images are one of the least fussy of any distros (linux/freeBSD) I've used. I much prefer having a minimal iso image that installs everything from a network connection download, rather than downloading an entire ISO complete with a million useless packages, when all I want is a simple server that does a few basic things. The OpenBSD ISOs are a few meg, and take a few seconds to download, even from a slow mirror. Compare that with downloading 700 meg ISOs for other distros. An experienced OpenBSD user almost can go from nothing to installed in less time than it takes to download the Ubuntu ISOs on release day.
- silentbicycle 17y agoIndeed. Combined with the console-based install, I can get an OpenBSD system up and running in about five minutes. (For what I've heard, this is pretty common.)
- iigs 17y agoAnd you can wget the install directory to a local web server while you're burning/booting the net install ISOs and by the time you need the files they're local. This makes installing the OS actually faster than doing so from CD.
- listic 17y agoNB: They do now. They seem to begin doing that since 4.2. I had to assemble full iso image of 4.1 myself.