Re: Installation problem

[David Aquilina <dwaquilina_(_at_)_gmail_(_dot_)_com>]

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 22:41:52 -0500, Jolan Luff <jolan_(_at_)_protection_(_dot_)_cx> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 11:18:38PM -0400, David Aquilina wrote:
> > I'm attempting to install OpenBSD 3.5 (via CDs purchased from OpenBSD)
> > on an AMD64 system - one of Sun's opteron workstations, to be precise.
> > It appears that the kernel boots just fine, however when it reaches
> > the point where the installation process normally starts, it just sits
> > there doing nothing. I'm trying to use the AMD64 version of OpenBSD, I
> > haven't tried the x86 version yet.
> >
> > I didn't see any errors, but I can hand-copy the last few lines of
> > output if someone is interested in looking at it.
> >
> > Has anyone seen this behavior before? if so, how have you worked around it?
> 
> hw support is greatly improved in 3.6, please try a snapshot:
> 
> ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/
> 

Can anyone give me a better answer than to try an unstable, still
under development version? If I wanted to use it, I would have just
downloaded it instead of going to the trouble to purchase and wait for
the CDs to arrive.

I'm rather disappointed, I checked the list of supported hardware and
all the major bits this machine has are listed for 3.5.