OS108-9.1 XFCE amd64 released

Jay

Download ISO https://github.com/OS108/OS108/releases/tag/9.1

MD5 (OS108_9-1_XFCE4_amd64.tar.gz) = 6fe8aea3103bcab98b961f0bbe749530 SHA512 (OS108_9-1_XFCE4_amd64.tar.gz) = b0d06708c6d96142d999d9ccc2073a339b9a8cd0a923e67ca7f5da1b47e600ddaf0daaf865446c056ed3a6664afe045e529daf7bf6519224d45961eb6a02d4e8
Download USB img:
https://github.com/OS108/OS108/releases/tag/9.1

MD5 (OS108-9-1_XFCE4_amd64_USB.img.gz) = 50fc22b79ba62dd04719b762c15b58b3 SHA512 (OS108-9-1_XFCE4_amd64_USB.img.gz) = 7c737aa0358718daa5c2c2d9c39b454bea065260f6c309c6b43fd79f8ba41379942eca7257dc3b63c8c6564d8ba9ecd45d997eddb007c8e542cbfaca8260d8aa
Installing OS108 to your hard drive is done by using the sysinst utility, the process is basically the same as installing NetBSD itself.
Please referer to the NetBSD guide for installation details, http://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/part-install.html

--Be sure to enable option "log" in partition to your FFSv2 file system.
--If you choose a custom partition scheme, which makes updating between releases easier, be aware that OS108, as NetBSD, installs software to /usr/pkg, so the /usr partition should be the largest partition on your drive.

When the base install is finished, let dhcp configure your network connection automatically, set the console keyboard, created a root password and set the root shell.
Please make sure to create at least one user being of group wheel from the configuration menu.

After install login to root account and follow these steps while CD ISO is in cdrom device:

#mount /cdrom
#sh /cdrom/OS108/xfce.sh

And for USB installer :

#mount /dev/dk1 /cdrom
#sh /cdrom/OS108/xfce.sh

where dk1 is your usb drive
Installation Tutorial video : https://youtu.be/cgAeY21gXR4

For WiFI also follow this guide to work along with WiFi manager : https://archive.unitedbsd.com/t/netbsd-desktop-pt-2-set-up-wireless-networking-on-netbsd-with-wpa-supplicant-and-dhcpcd/281
Have fun and do report bugs and problems
Special Thanks to @leot @medfly @ryoshu @nbyouri @nia and others from Freenode #NetBSD

marietto

Hello to everyone. After having "burned" the os108 img file to my usb stick I tried to booit it. unfortunately I got some errors.

Jay

marietto does installer start for you ?

marietto

Jay :

yes. The solution is to "burn" the iso image to a dvd disk and then it will boot. If I "burn" the USB image to one USB stick,it will not boot. Can I upgrade it to 9.2 ? Can you have a look at the latest post that I wrote here --> https://www.unitedbsd.com/d/582-trying-to-install-the-driver-for-my-main-gputhe-intel-uhd-graphics-630i915/95 ? thanks.

Jay

marietto you can upgrade using sysupgrade to 9.2

marietto

Jay

Point is that I feel not safe by upgrading if I don't understand why with the 9.1-STABLE I can use my screen at 1920x1080 and why I haven't been able to do this from a lot of time when I did a lot of experiments with the 9.2 as you see on the link that I gave to you. The risk is that "the magic" breaks and I can't use netbsd anymore.

Assassink

Why is this project not updated ever since last year

Jay

Assassink waiting for NetBSD 10 stable release 🙂

Assassink

Jay Ok, I got it but why 10 and not 9.3 stable version

Jay

Assassink You can easily upgrade to 9.3 using NetBSD's sysupgrade 🙂

Assassink

Jay
Ok I thought that it is not using NetBSD 9.3

Can I try it to bring it on OpenBSD which has better graphics support for current latest GPU cards and latest CPU generation

vic

Hi,
I'm new to BSD in general, and tried to install os108, on my Acer Aspire, 64bit.
It failed to set up the wifi.
I read on netbsd release page that the latest 9.3 has some improvements related to wifi, so perhaps you need to update os108 to 9.3?

I didn't manage to make it dual-boot with my windows, so I had to reinstall windows. But this is probably my fault, didn't read more carefully, so I missed one particular paragraph about adding labels to bootmenu in :
https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-exinst.html#exinst-partitions
But then the docs are not user friendly at all (too many versions to keep track of: your video (outdated), netbsd guide (with outdated pictures), the Install doc ...).
Only one other relevant source I found googling "netbsd dual boot windows" : https://rubenerd.com/dual-boot-windows-nt-netbsd-on-the-libretto-70ct/ , even that not about _modern windows .
(the explanations in faq of netbsd didn't help).

I conclude netbsd is not for beginners...

Jay

vic you can upgrade OS108 to NetBSD 9.3 base via sysupgrade.

vic

Jay how, if the installation failed to set up wifi?

Jay

vic you can set up wifi after installation.

vic

I would not know how. I thought maybe version 9.3 can cope with it automatically.