Complete noob...

[Alan DeWitt]

> I hope someone can help point me in the right direction to decent
> doc's, or give me some pointers, because I really like the philosophy
> of OBSD and want to use it, but I have spent a week on it already, and
> I am really battling to get anywhere. If I can't make progress soon, I
> will have to go over to Linux where there is more documentation for a
> noob.

It sounds like (and I may be reading too much between the lines) that  
you are new to *nix in general. I think OpenBSD is a great starting  
place for learning *nix; it's the same way I've gotten into it  
myself. If you don't even know how to extract a *.tar.gz archive,  
though, the man pages won't help much. (Try man tar.)

> I have looked in the archives and I see there a recent thread about
> documentation, and sadly the "powers" seem to believe the docs for
> OpenBSD are adequate. Well they may be for them because they already
> know all the stuff, but for me there is a HUGE gap for beginners. Note

You are correct, in a sense. For the person who knows what they want  
to do and has a basic grasp of *nix, the man pages are adequate and  
even excellent. For the person new to *nix, though, the question is  
more "Okay, I have a working system... what now?"

That sort of guidance, beyond man afterboot, is properly out of the  
scope of what the OpenBSD developers should provide. (I agree it  
would be an excellent thing for them to offer, but I'd rather they  
spend their time on things they find more interesting.) The good  
news, though, is that you can look at any beginner's guide to *nix  
system administration, and it will have information which can easily  
be adapted to OpenBSD. Same thing goes for other systems' "getting  
started" guides and HOWTOs. (If you're interested in running OpenBSD  
in the long run, you may as well start getting used to adapting  
HOWTOs written for other systems right from the start... It'll be a  
fairly regular experience.)

In addition to the man pages pointed out by runman, try:
http://www.openbsd.org/anoncvs.html

Now... what is it you want to do with your system?

-Alan