threebsdLong story short, if you’re running 5.x or 5_STABLE, forget it. At least on my Turion CPU with 5.1.2 and 5_STABLE afterwards, I couldn’t get it to work, and from the mailing lists archives I gathered that it works on HEAD. I followed this example to do a binary upgrade and now it works, as [...]
FreeBSD by default sets the TERM variable as cons25, and you have colors. In NetBSD and OpenBSD, the TERM settings are vt100 and vt220, respectively. Just ‘export TERM=wsvt25′ and make it permanent by adding a line to your .profile .
MY setup first: my good ole trusty Thinkpad T22, a 4.9-release install CD and the need for -current. I booted from the CD, chose HTTP as the install source and changed the location on the server from something like OpenBSD/4.9/i386 to OpenBSD/snapshots/i386. The installer will initially find only the kernel and the ramdisk: install them, [...]
