OpenBSD beginners tutorial

[WBGLinks]

I recently wrote an OpenBSD tutorial for beginners, covering the areas of:


Installation
Tips and Tricks
Patching
Security
Updating


The tutorial can be found here: http://www.openbsd101.com/ (http://www.openbsd101.com)

[DSwain]

That's a pretty nice little guide through. I didn't read it extensivly; I just browsed through it. I have a question for you though... two actually. First, is it possible to use previously created partitions during the installation to avoid having to fight with the installers disk partitioner? I'm more of a cfdisk fan myself. Second, can OpenBSD be booted similar to FreeBSD where I can use Grub to keep my other OSes in tact? That'd be much nicer than dedicating my machine to OpenBSD. I may give it a swing if I can have these questions answered.

Overall though, a nice little guide through of many OpenBSD things. Some can be well applied to the big three *BSD's too (CVSup and such) so keep up with the content.

[WBGLinks]

You can easily install OpenBSD onto a multi-boot system.

I just don't cover that, yet, in my tutorial.

[DSwain]

Right. I figured that was the case, but I was curious if I was using Grub, would I set it up like I do with FreeBSD? I'm assuming they're somewhat similar in this sense. I would make an entry look something like this for example:

title BSD
root (hdx,y)
chainloader +1

At least that's what I would do for FreeBSD. Do you happen to know if it would be something like this? If you don't know I understand; I'm not expecting you to know. I figured I'd ask though just to give you maybe something else to write about if you wanted to.

[*nixX]

My long lost monkey friend.

[WBGLinks]

I figured I'd ask though just to give you maybe something else to write about if you wanted to.

Good questions. The information out there, like most information on boot loaders and Unix like operating systems ... the information is limited.

From what I gather, the suggested order to install a Linux, FBSD and OBSD system is like this ... OBSD first, then the other two.

I've personally run OBSD, Linux and FreeBSD off the same box using the boot loader GAG (http://www.rastersoft.com).

I'm not enjoying the thought of taking the time to install these multiple systems in order to write a tutorial ... Call me lazy, it just doesn't sound fun.

[DSwain]

Good questions. The information out there, like most information on boot loaders and Unix like operating systems ... the information is limited.

From what I gather, the suggested order to install a Linux, FBSD and OBSD system is like this ... OBSD first, then the other two.

I've personally run OBSD, Linux and FreeBSD off the same box using the boot loader GAG (http://www.rastersoft.com).

I'm not enjoying the thought of taking the time to install these multiple systems in order to write a tutorial ... Call me lazy, it just doesn't sound fun.

Understandable. Just was out of curiosity to see if you knew. Thanks for the reply though at any rate. No, I wouldn't expect you to do that if you didn't choose to. Maybe just something to remember if you decide to try something diffferent out of bordum one day.

[infiniphunk]

Thanks a lot for the tutorial! I just did the install from ftp using the floppy38.fs. Looks like its good to go on my second desktop, an AMD K-6 with 256 meg RAM. Now just to learn how to use this Beast(ie) LOL!