I downloaded -current snapshot and used to install and guess what!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I T W O R K E D I am just so happy after spending 13 (yes thirteen) days of full time trying everything to make this work. As I said before, I spent all my life working on Windows and this is the first time I work on a non-Windows environment. Even the machine, I bought it 13 days ago. So every thing was new to me. I would never have done it without your help, so thank you: Raimo NiskanenJosh GrosseErling WestenvikStuart HendersonPeter N. M. HansteenJiri BJan Stary
> From: afyous...@hotmail.com > To: raimo+open...@erix.ericsson.se; misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: Installing OpenBSD 5.6 using a USB Flash drive > Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 18:22:04 +0000 > > > Oops! I did not see that 'disk' actually was among the possible set > > locations. Have you tried that? > Yes I have. > Could you please refer to previous discussions. If you cannot see many emails > included here, then there must be something wrong with Outlook.com I am > using. > > > Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 16:14:42 +0100 > > From: raimo+open...@erix.ericsson.se > > To: misc@openbsd.org > > Subject: Re: Installing OpenBSD 5.6 using a USB Flash drive > > > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:51:41PM +0100, Raimo Niskanen wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 10:36:20AM +0000, A Y wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I used the following command to create a USB flash drive installation > media > > > > (with all file sets included): > > > > # dd if=/location/install56.fs of=/dev/rsd0c bs=1m > > > > The USB flash drive was created successfully. > > > > The boot process from the USB was done. However, when we came to > installing > > > > file sets, the following prompt was displayed: > > > > Location of sets? (disk http or 'done') [http] > > > > Now, what can I do to direct the installation process to look for the > file > > > > sets in the USB flash drive? > > > > The documentation says: > > > > "Once the install kernel is booted, you have several options of where to > get > > > > the install file sets: > > > > CD-ROM, HTTP, Local disk partition, NFS" (no mention to USB) > > > > As adviced, I did the following from the shell: > > > > cd /devsh MAKEDEV sd1 mkdir /mnt1mount /dev/sd1a /mnt1 > > > > But I got the following error: > > > > Device not configured > > > > Thank you > > > > > > Strange. I think 'disk' should be among the possible set locations. > > > > Oops! I did not see that 'disk' actually was among the possible set > > locations. Have you tried that? > > > > > > > > What kind of machine is this? > > > > > > Use the shell for some diagnostics. > > > Check your dmesg. Does the install kernel (bsd.rd) detect the flash > drive? > > > Check what "sysctl hw.disknames" says. > > > > > > It seems the USB disk is not detected even though BIOS and boot(8) manages > to > > > boot the kernel. If so there might be BIOS options that can help e.g > > > setting the disks to AHCI mode, depending on what kind of machine this > is. > > > > > > -- > > > > > > / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB > > > > -- > > > > / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
