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There was a project by some frech grad students to make a CD-based GUI installer. Don't know what the status is though. Check it out

Check out the G.O.B.I.E Project. It's a graphical installer for OpenBSD.

From the web site:
The main goal of the GOBIE is to add a graphical installation of the famous OS OpenBSD. This project has bee developped in the spirit of OpenBSD which means that the installation is as close as possible as the text one.

GOBIE wishes to add some value to the product by developping installation modules to known servers such as Bind, Sendmail, Inn, Apache...

Here are some screenshots - looks pretty cool to me. The only downside to it is that the release is scheduled for July and thus not availabe yet, so keep your eyes open. It seems like a project that is worth supporting.

Check out the G.O.B.I.E Project. It's a graphical installer for OpenBSD.

From the web site:
The main goal of the GOBIE is to add a graphical installation of the famous OS OpenBSD. This project has bee developped in the spirit of OpenBSD which means that the installation is as close as possible as the text one.

GOBIE wishes to add some value to the product by developping installation modules to known servers such as Bind, Sendmail, Inn, Apache...

Here are some screenshots - looks pretty cool to me. The only downside to it is that the release is scheduled for July and thus not availabe yet, so keep your eyes open. It seems like a project that is worth supporting.

[G.O.B.I.E.] stands for Grapical OpenBSD Installation Engine.

The screenshots of it look great.

I don't really mind there not being a real GUI-based installer. Although I would appreciate the comfort in having one, I've found OpenBSD installs extremely painless and easy, the installation on my (slightly dated) router box takes no more than 15 minutes. Even as a beginner, a quick read-through of the really excellent FAQ provides all the information you need to get started in no time.

But then, there's this article I stumbled across on Deadly:

G.O.B.I.E, a "Graphical OpenBSD Installer Engine", and I have to say the screenshots look pretty damn slick. They are also working on other cool things. From the web site:

[G.O.B.I.E] wishes to add some value to the product by developing installation modules to known servers such as Bind, Sendmail, Inn Apache..

Among them, you will find help to configure PF(Packet Filter), authpf, altq and some other tools.

We have planed to build a kernel configuration tool too !!!

I think that sounds like an interesting project and (though IMHO not absolutely needed) I would like to see it being officially presented as an alternative to the current installer.

I don't really mind there not being a real GUI-based installer. Although I would appreciate the comfort in having one, I've found OpenBSD installs extremely painless and easy, the installation on my (slightly dated) router box takes no more than 15 minutes. Even as a beginner, a quick read-through of the really excellent FAQ provides all the information you need to get started in no time.

But then, there's this article I stumbled across on Deadly:

G.O.B.I.E, a "Graphical OpenBSD Installer Engine", and I have to say the screenshots look pretty damn slick. They are also working on other cool things. From the web site:

[G.O.B.I.E] wishes to add some value to the product by developing installation modules to known servers such as Bind, Sendmail, Inn Apache..

Among them, you will find help to configure PF(Packet Filter), authpf, altq and some other tools.

We have planed to build a kernel configuration tool too !!!

I think that sounds like an interesting project and (though IMHO not absolutely needed) I would like to see it being officially presented as an alternative to the current installer.

It died a long time ago, if you ask me! Hey, were's the graphical install on FreeBSD? Oh yeah, there isn't one! Welcome to 1980!

The eighties are still alive, and OpenBSD has a graphical install