Never mind, I found the instructions the the same mirror directory,in a
plain text file called "INSTALL.amd64".
Forgive the dummy here,
Clay
On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 8:05 PM Clay Daniels <clay.daniels.jr@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I have successfully installed OpenBSD 6.6 release and would like to give
> the Current Snapshots a try. I went to a mirror, and to:
>
> Index of /pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/
>
> I saw install66.fs (probably for usb memstick) and install66.iso (surely
> for a cd/dvd) at ~450Mb. I picked the install66.fs, wrote it to a usb
> thumbdrive, and it starts the install. When i get into the install it asks
> where are the file sets? Humm, maybe it gets these online and it tries to
> do this but no luck. It was late last night, and I checked to see if it had
> written anything to my disk, which it had not, and went to bed. This
> evening I'm looking a bit deeper at the snapshot directory and I suspect I
> need to provide the install with base66.tzg at ~239Mb.
>
> My question now is after downloading the base, do I need to un-tar it, and
> how to I provide it to the install? I wrote the install66.fs to the usb
> with the dd command. Not clear to me how to either manually copy the base
> file set to the usb, or maybe leave it on an accessible directory on my
> machine. Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Clay Daniels
>
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