Re: 2-3 General Question

2010-09-23 Thread David Walker
Nick Holland nick () holland-consulting ! net wrote: http://www.openbsd.org/o/faq/faq4.html#Multibooting Which should be (typo): http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Multibooting That's a great FAQ entry. Well written, comprehensive. LOL, if you intend to use different drives for your

Re: 2-3 General Question

2010-09-23 Thread David Coppa
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org wrote: On 2010-09-22, David Coppa dco...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org wrote: On 2010-09-22, LOL elvis4...@gmail.com wrote: Does openBSD have a tools that search

Re: 2-3 General Question

2010-09-22 Thread Andreas Kahari
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 09:51:48PM -0700, patrick keshishian wrote: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 7:03 PM, LOL elvis4...@gmail.com wrote: [cut] Does openBSD has a boot manager like Grub or Boot0 for FreeBSD ? I don't think so. HTH, --patrick Grub 0.97 is in ports. See the sysutils/grub

Re: 2-3 General Question

2010-09-22 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:51:48 -0700 patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com wrote: Does openBSD has a boot manager like Grub or Boot0 for FreeBSD ? I don't think so. Gag (written in assembly) is quite handy and allows you to select new partitions on the fly.

Re: 2-3 General Question

2010-09-22 Thread Nick Holland
On 09/21/10 22:03, LOL wrote: Hello everybody, I read already all the faq and the doc on the openBSD websites. There's just two-three thing that I'm not very sure how to do it correctly. The proper way to update a -RELEASE installation is to pick the patch on the openBSD websites and just

Re: 2-3 General Question

2010-09-22 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2010-09-22, LOL elvis4...@gmail.com wrote: Does openBSD have a tools that search packages ? The only way I found it's by installing ports tree but I think it's a bit stupid to have all the tree just to a search. pkg_add pkg_mgr

Re: 2-3 General Question

2010-09-22 Thread David Coppa
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org wrote: On 2010-09-22, LOL elvis4...@gmail.com wrote: Does openBSD have a tools that search packages ? The only way I found it's by installing ports tree but I think it's a bit stupid to have all the tree just to a search.

Re: 2-3 General Question

2010-09-22 Thread Emmanuel Gallois
2010/9/22 Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org: On 2010-09-22, LOL elvis4...@gmail.com wrote: Does openBSD have a tools that search packages ? The only way I found it's by installing ports tree but I think it's a bit stupid to have all the tree just to a search. pkg_add pkg_mgr pkg_info

Re: 2-3 General Question

2010-09-22 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2010-09-22, David Coppa dco...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org wrote: On 2010-09-22, LOL elvis4...@gmail.com wrote: Does openBSD have a tools that search packages ? The only way I found it's by installing ports tree but I think it's

Re: 2-3 General Question

2010-09-22 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:03:54PM -0400, LOL wrote: Does openBSD have a tools that search packages ? The only way I found it's by installing ports tree but I think it's a bit stupid to have all the tree just to a search. Does openBSD has a boot manager like Grub or Boot0 for FreeBSD ?

Re: 2-3 General Question

2010-09-22 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2010-09-22, LOL elvis4...@gmail.com wrote: Does openBSD have a tools that search packages ? The only way I found it's by installing ports tree but I think it's a bit stupid to have all the tree just to a search. pkg_add pkg_mgr For

Re: 2-3 General Question

2010-09-22 Thread Paul Irofti
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:24:00AM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote: On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2010-09-22, LOL elvis4...@gmail.com wrote: Does openBSD have a tools that search packages ? The only way I found it's by installing ports tree but I think it's a bit stupid to

Re: 2-3 General Question

2010-09-22 Thread LOL
Wow, Thanks very much for all the answer. When I sayed that I think it's stupid to install all the port tree just to search, I meant that the ports tree is for install object from source. So if you just use it for searching, you're not using it for the right thing ? But thanks for the pkg_mgr and

Re: 2-3 General Question

2010-09-22 Thread Fred Crowson
On 22 September 2010 21:51, LOL elvis4...@gmail.com wrote: Wow, Thanks very much for all the answer. When I sayed that I think it's stupid to install all the port tree just to search, I meant that the ports tree is for install object from source. So if you just use it for searching, you're not

Re: 2-3 General Question

2010-09-22 Thread LOL
2010/9/22 Fred Crowson fred.crow...@gmail.com On 22 September 2010 21:51, LOL elvis4...@gmail.com wrote: Wow, Thanks very much for all the answer. When I sayed that I think it's stupid to install all the port tree just to search, I meant that the ports tree is for install object from

Re: 2-3 General Question

2010-09-22 Thread James Hartley
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 3:24 PM, LOL elvis4...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/9/22 Fred Crowson fred.crow...@gmail.com PS: my boot.ini when I used to dual boot my X41 Laptop: [boot loader] timeout=5 default c:\openbsd40.pbr=OpenBSD - a real OS ;~) [operating systems]

Re: 2-3 General Question

2010-09-22 Thread Nick Holland
On 09/22/10 18:24, LOL wrote: 2010/9/22 Fred Crowson fred.crow...@gmail.com On 22 September 2010 21:51, LOL elvis4...@gmail.com wrote: Wow, Thanks very much for all the answer. When I sayed that I think it's stupid to install all the port tree just to search, I meant that the ports tree

2-3 General Question

2010-09-21 Thread LOL
Hello everybody, I read already all the faq and the doc on the openBSD websites. There's just two-three thing that I'm not very sure how to do it correctly. The proper way to update a -RELEASE installation is to pick the patch on the openBSD websites and just follow the instruction that come with

Re: 2-3 General Question

2010-09-21 Thread patrick keshishian
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 7:03 PM, LOL elvis4...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everybody, I read already all the faq and the doc on the openBSD websites. There's just two-three thing that I'm not very sure how to do it correctly. The proper way to update a -RELEASE installation is to pick the patch on