On Sat, 13 Aug 2022 14:29:29 +0200
Omar Polo <op@omarpolo.com> wrote:
> On 2022/08/13 13:32:10 +0300, Tuzson Zoltan <tuzo60@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On the link, when I downloaded and I try to write to the USB with Rufus or
> > Etcher, I got the error message, that the install71.iso it is not a
> > bootable file?
> > What can I do?
>
> Never used Rufus before, but I think you need to download
> install71.img if you plan to use an USB stick for the installation.
If I was to guess… it'd be because the ISO images provided by many
Linux distributions are actually hybrid MS-DOS disklabels / CD images.
The ISO9660 specification leaves the first sector free so that you can
do things like include a MS-DOS disklabel and boot-sector, thus
allowing your "ISO image" to also be bootable when written to a disk drive.
I'm not sure the `install71.iso` does this.
Furthermore, there's mention of a XFCE LiveCD: no such animal in
OpenBSD. `install71.iso` provides the installer (and maybe the disk
sets too), it doesn't have XFCE, or any live GUI environment. You'll
find you'll need to boot the installer, perform an install (which will
be a text-based application), then reboot -- that will get you a CLI
environment.
From there, you'll have to install XFCE yourself; something along the
lines of `pkg_add xfce` will get you maybe 70% of the way there (in
that it'll install XFCE, you may then have to do some configuration to
set up XenoDM or similar to actually launch XFCE when you log in … or
to launch it when you run `exec startx` from the CLI.).
--
Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL)
I haven't lost my mind...
...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.
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