On Thursday 25 October 2007, Richard Toohey wrote:
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> On 25/10/2007, at 4:35 PM, metajunkie@gmail.com wrote:
> > thanks for the response.  I'll give that a read, and a try.
> >
> > where are you getting 4.2?  the web site only shows 4.1 as being
> > released.
> >
> > metajunkie
>
> 4.2 - order it online (they've been REALLY good this year - took less
> than 2 weeks from order to delivery to NZ.)
>
> http://www.openbsd.org/orders.html
>
> On 10/24/07, Nick Holland <nick@holland-consulting.net> wrote:
> > First, make sure you are trying a snapshot, not 4.1 or older.  If
> > you are using 4.2, still try a snapshot, a lot has happened since
> > 4.2 already.  If that fixes your problem, you are done.  (the onboard
> > NIC problem is hinting to me that you are using an older version).
>
> Snapshots - I have not done this myself, so you'll have to RTFM
> (meant politely - like I said I have not done this myself):
>
> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#BldBinary

You don't need to build from source - just grab a binary snapshot from a 
nearby FTP or HTTP server, rather than using the 4.1 release. eg:

ftp://ftp5.usa.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/

You can install a snapshot as you would normally install a release.
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