On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Theo de Raadt <dera...@cvs.openbsd.org> wrote: > > Sadly, CD2 of the OpenBSD 5.7 shipped in a broken fashion due to > errors at the manufacturing plant. Two mistakes were made. > > In the rush after the first error, this error was not caught in time. > Many people have received (or will soon receive) their package with > this broken disc. Orders which have not yet shipped are being held > back... because...
5.7 (the first batch) was delivered on the east coast of the USA today (New York City area). while CD2 does not boot, one could probably make amd64 install media by booting from CD1, installing the i386 version onto a flash drive, then mounting CD2 and copying the amd64 install files there as well. if you're in a hurry or don't need/want to wait for a replacement CD2, here are the approximate steps to make a flash drive that can be used to install both i386 and amd64. these steps begin after you have installed i386 onto a flash drive but before your first reboot: Copy the i386 install files onto the flash drive: mount /dev/cd0a /mnt2 mkdir -p /mnt/5.7/i386 cd /mnt/5.7/i386 (cd /mnt2/5.7/i386; tar cf - .) | tar xvfp - cd /; umount /mnt2 Load the amd64 CD and copy the amd64 install files onto the flash drive: mount /dev/cd0a /mnt2 mkdir -p /mnt/5.7/amd64 cd /mnt/5.7/amd64 (cd /mnt2/5.7/amd64; tar cf - .) | tar xvfp - cd /; umount /mnt2 Now rename the files in /mnt/5.7/amd64 to have the proper case. Use the filenames in /mnt/5.7/i386 as a model for how the names should look. I'm supposing the fact that the filenames all appear to be uppercase is an indication of why CD2 is considered 'broken'. To install amd64 from this flash drive, boot from it and at the boot> prompt type (quickly, before it automatically boots i386): boot /5.7/amd64/bsd.rd If you want to install i386, type this instead: boot /5.7/i386/bsd.rd If you don't type anything at the boot> prompt, i386 will boot the GENERIC kernel, which might be useful if you want to capture a dmesg on a new system or something. I tested this procedure just now, but only to the point of booting /5.7/amd64/bsd.rd. I did not actually try to install amd64 this way (at least, not yet) but I don't see any particular reason it shouldn't work. assuming you can boot your system from a USB flash drive, of course. if you can't this won't help you. I've used a similar procedure in the past to make a 5.4 flash drive that I could use to install OpenBSD onto a Soekris box, when I was sure I was going to install from a flash drive, but not yet sure whether I would use i386 or amd64 (so I made sure I had both). -ken
