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If you can dedicated an entire disk to OpenBSD the installation is amazingly simple; I highly recommend going that route.

• silentbicycle 17y ago
  The spartan text-based install is also remarkably fast. Once you've done the installation a few times, it's possible to get the whole system up and running in five minutes.
  • ciupicri 17y ago
    It doesn't have even half of anaconda's features and it installs only a few packages. No wonder that it's so fast.
    • silentbicycle 17y ago
      > It doesn't have even half of anaconda's features and it installs only a few packages. That's often a good thing. For headless installs, a Python and GTK-based install doesn't cut it. "pkg_add pkgname" fetches a package and its dependencies once you choose a mirror, anyway, and using text files rather than menus to configure the system means you can keep your configuration in VC, configure a typical system by just applying patches, etc.
      • ciupicri 17y ago
        Anaconda has a text mode install, so GTK+ is not always used. But I do agree, that it can't be used on resource constrained systems. > using text files rather than menus to configure the system means you can keep your configuration in VC, configure a typical system What configuration? We were talking about installers and anaconda can use kickstart files to automate the installation. And of course they can be kept in a VCS.