Re: Successfull 6.4 install via USB thumb to PowerBook3.5 (Titanium IV), PowerBook5,8 (G4 15")

[email protected] Mon, 11 Mar 2019 18:52:12 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.ppc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello !

Good to hear, that things are working.

> [    note 0:
>  6.5 was unable to pull new packages after the successful basic
>  install - with messages along the line of:
> 
>   "Can't install ... can't resolve package ..."
> 
>   ... no idea what went wrong.  6.4 seems to work when installing new
>   packages after the initial install.

Check your /etc/installurl or, your $PKG_PATH as 6.5 is not out now so, 
you need to replace it with snapshots, even uname reports, that it is 
6.5.

>         note 1:
>  Both installers, IIRC, 6.5 and 6.4, don't ask for a keyboard
>  language setup. So be careful about the passwords you type in
>  during the install procedure.   ]
> 

That is normal on this platform.

> If you are upgrading OpenBSD, you also have the option of installing
> OpenBSD by putting the new distribution sets somewhere in your

Is there something missing ?

Regards,


Christoph