> Did you try the last build?
yep, did pulled latest build. Same for freeBSD and other BSD distros. Unfortunately will go with linux in this machine as it looks wireless network driver not supported. Well, was about to get into the BSD world, but mbe later.. Thanks for your time

small update:
got it working, able to boot and see the DE, however, the setup does not work. No clue wht it could be, but installation media seams unstable, or some another issue. Linux/ubuntu works on this machine well though.

same here, the iso sha256 matches. Used dd to write to USB (in linux). Specific error log: ==> Mount swap-based memdisk ==> Replicate system image to swap-based memdisk cannot receive new file system stream: checksum mismatch ...,.. MB/s Enter full pathname of the shell of RETURN for /rescue/sh Hitt...