All thanks to you Teacher Jgimmi !
I did the aforementioned steps .. do you suggest I download the installation snapshots or the current iso ?
the kernel version :
Code:
$ sudo sysctl kern.version
kern.version=OpenBSD 5.1-beta (GENERIC.MP) #160: Fri Jan 13 11:46:49 MST 2012
deraadt@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sy...ile/GENERIC.MP