Re: Installing via FTP

[rabbit <rabbit@kotnet.org>]

If you used the 3.1-release floppy from
ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.1/<your_arch>/floppy31.fs
you have a release.

If you used an install-floppy from the /pub/OpenBSD/snapshots dir, you
have a snapshot.

Of course you could direct the release install floppy to snapshot
distribution sets (or maybe the installer complains then? I never tried
:p), but if everything went "automagically", you probably didn't tamper
that much with the installers' great defaults ;-)

 - rabbit

On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Richard P. Koett wrote:

> I recently did an install via FTP. After selecting a nearby
> FTP server from the list everything happened kind of
> automagically.
>
> The Upgrade Mini-FAQ (Section 1.2) refers to getting
> snapshots this way. The FAQ (Section 3.2) implies that
> I could get either a release or a snapshot.
>
> How can I tell whether what I grabbed was a release
> or a snapshot?