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Originally Posted by EverydayDiesel
I went out and downloaded the latest 5.2 iso and thats what I am using.
mirror.esc7.net/pub/OpenBSD/5.2/i386/cd52.iso
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You have downloaded the ISO for 5.2-
release. If you want to download the latest snapshot of
-current, you will need to go to
/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386 at the same mirror site.
If you are unfamiliar with the difference between the
-release &
-current flavors, study
Section 5.1 of the FAQ. In essence,
-release is the CVS tagged version of OpenBSD officially released every six months.
-current is the head of the CVS tree where all
current development takes place. The ISO's of 5.2
-release comes from work last dated August 2012
(as I recall....). The latest snapshot of
-current was built earlier today, & contains the changes
jggimi mentions.
In addition, downloading
cd52.iso only downloads the
bsd.rd installation kernel
(on a bootable CD...). You will still have to manually download the corresponding filesets through
ftp(1),
etc. You will find that the
install52.iso ISO image
contains the
bsd.rd kernel + all filesets; nothing else needs to be obtained.
Lastly, note that the size of
cd52.iso is
significantly smaller than
install52.iso. The reason for the difference is the absence of the filesets. More related information on what can be found at the mirror sites can be found in
Section 4.3 of the FAQ.