Good things come to those who wait.
After eight months of work we've now released the final version of BSDanywhere 4.3 - Enlightenment at your fingertips, the OpenBSD Live CD.
It might take some time until the images are propagated to all mirror servers. Have a look at our download page.
There aren't much changes since beta 3, which is Good(TM):
- We have removed bsd.rd to motivate people getting pure OpenBSD if they decide for it. We don't need the ramdisk kernel anyway because our entire system can be used for disaster recovery and other rescue tasks. While loosing the nice feature of being able to install OpenBSD with our CD's on the one hand, we're making a clear statement on the other: Get OpenBSD instead if you want to install it.
- Since we gained some megabytes due to the removal of bsd.rd we added more packages. Besides Galculator, which has been integrated into the E17 menu, we have now mboxgrep, nemesis, newsfetch, queso, radiusniff, scanssh, smtpscan, ssldump, stress and stunnel.
- While releasing 4.3 we're also making our official artwork publicly available. A big 'thanks' to Tim Saueressig for this awesome stuff! He also created some really nice CD cover labels.
Of course, some may ask why releasing a 4.3 release even though half of the planet is already hyping for OpenBSD 4.4. Well, it's quite simple: See our first final release as kind of a Release Candidate for 4.4. We are only packagers, we won't add feature over feature to BSDanywhere. Actually, some of us believe "we're done" ;).
There will be a 4.4 release soon, somewhere in November.
And last but not least, the usual propaganda: If you use OpenBSD or OpenSSH on a regular basis, to achieve your daily work or even to make some money - please pay forward by supporting the OpenBSD project. Buy a release set or donate money.
Cheers,
Stephan
LiveCD?
LiveCD? That doesnt connect to the network? That wont let me set the resolution in VMWare (via xrandr) Did I download the wrong ISO? I really hope I did 'cause its a bit of a joke...
I downloaded: bsdanywhere43-i386
And as per the comment above, there was no artwork just the default E17 theme.
BSDanywhere asks for DHCP
BSDanywhere asks for DHCP based network config during boot, if you have a supported NIC.
You don't have to use xandr because usually it can find it its resolution by itself. Works for most screens.
With artwork we refer to the ISO labels you can download on our website. Integration into the desktop could be done but has low priority.
Log-in
I'm trying the Live CD, boots OK, runs the
hardware, etc. and I finally figured out the keyboard and time zone, but I'm stuck on Password:
When it asks for log-in, I've tried live, 'live'
Live, 'Live', and ditto for root.
Both are supposed to not have a password, yet
it asks for one, and no key press works.
Hitting enter says "Incorrect password" then asks
for Log in and password again. No letter or number key registers at password prompt. F1 is no help, neither is typing "help" or "?"
What's the secret? There should be no password, right?
F1,F1,F1,F1,F1,F1, HELP!
LG
Just hit Enter twice.
Just hit Enter twice.