On 2018-03-17, Rodney Polkinghorne <this...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > This is my first post here, I appreciate how much work you all do, please > be gentle. :-) > > Could someone please tell me how to install the latest snapshot, or point > me at some instructions that work? I tried the following: > > 1. Download bsd.rd and SHA256.sig from > http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/ > > 2. Fail to verify the 6.3 signatures, because I'm running 6.1. (It would > be nice if the signify man page had instructions to download and verify > openbsd-<future version>-base.pub.)
You can fetch this from src/etc/signify via cvsweb, or untar ./etc/signify fron 6.2's base62.tgz. > 3. Reboot, with boot> boot sd0a:/root/bsd.rd > > 4. Choose to install to sd1 (a USB key), default options, location of sets > is http, HTTP server is mirror.aarnet.edu.au. > > 5. The default server directory is pub/OpenBSD/6.3/i386, override that with > snapshots instead of 6.3 > > 6. Leave all sets selected, and say done > > At this point, the installer reported that SHA256.sig had downloaded and > verified, and that bsd downloaded but failed its checksum test. > > Possibly the answer is to ignore the checksums, but I want to ask first. Perhaps you caught the mirror mid-update, does it still happen now?
