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Old 18th October 2013
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And that's why you have questions.
Plus lack of experience!! :-)

So according to my thorough reading of these:

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade53.html

http://www.openbsd.org/plus.html

I have installed a 'snapshot' of OpenBSD 5.4.... using the install54.iso - am I correct?

So would I need to upgrade this as it looks to me like the latest snapshot, having taken it off my local mirrors: /pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/ directed as suggested earlier.

But more to the point.... if the h/w based RAID subsystem is not being detected by the installer then it doesn't matter if I run current or snapshot or release does it? As from my (lack of) understanding there is no install.iso for 'current' as it's distributed via CVS, so my only options seem to be using either SoftRAID which reading through the link I posted above needs to be setup pre-install (again to my (lack of) understanding :-) ) or doing a simple:

Code:
dd if=/disk1 of=/disk2
Then if one disk goes down, boot from the other......


Btw, thanks for everyone's patience..... I found out the hard way about reading through the docs multiple times in order to find out how to do things when I did my SPARC install ages ago. I'm just happy that no one has got frustrated with my lack of understanding/knowledge yet - or at least that they're being extra nice about it :-)

[EDIT]
Bottom line is that OpenBSD 5.4 is installed at present and seems to be pretty stable.... my worry is not about which version am running but the H/W RAID controller. If it really makes no difference as to the detection of it then I can just continue from where I am now building up the system and installing it into the network.

Last edited by sparky; 18th October 2013 at 03:41 PM.
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