Re: Testing changes in current using a liveCD

2015-06-21 Thread Walter Alejandro Iglesias
After realizing that FuguIta runs stable and not current like I thought (sorry for the noise) I decided to download a snapshot from an openbsd mirror and to install it in my Thinkpad T410. I indeed noticed an improvement in the CPU temperature issue: With 5.7 release after booting:

Re: Testing changes in current using a liveCD

2015-06-21 Thread Peter Pauly
A twenty percent power reduction is no improvement? You have high expectations. On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 5:13 PM, Walter Alejandro Iglesias roque...@gmail.com wrote: After realizing that FuguIta runs stable and not current like I thought (sorry for the noise) I decided to download a snapshot

Re: Testing changes in current using a liveCD

2015-06-21 Thread Walter Alejandro Iglesias
On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 05:24:35PM -0400, Peter Pauly wrote: A twenty percent power reduction is no improvement? You have high expectations. I know that my English is horrible :-) but what do you read below? On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 5:13 PM, Walter Alejandro Iglesias roque...@gmail.com wrote:

Testing changes in current using a liveCD

2015-06-18 Thread Walter Alejandro Iglesias
Hello, I'd appreciate someone tell me if I'm doing something wrong. I want to test the latest ACPI changes in two Thinkpad I own (T410 and x201). I assume: 1. To test current I can just use the latest snapshot. 2. FuguIta LiveCD is regularly updated to the latest snapshot. In case I'm

Re: LiveUSB OpenBSD and LiveCD-OpenBSD site updated

2012-04-10 Thread Mihai Popescu
Andres Perera wrote: read very slowly if they don't use the following to boot: * bootp (requires more than one system) * a cd (requires an optical drive) * a floppy (requires a floppy drive) then they boot from hdd. it doesn't matter if it's usb, sata or what have you I think you are

Re: LiveUSB OpenBSD and LiveCD-OpenBSD site updated

2012-04-10 Thread Andres Perera
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 1:53 AM, Mihai Popescu mih...@gmail.com wrote: Andres Perera wrote: read very slowly if they don't use the following to boot: * bootp (requires more than one system) * a cd (requires an optical drive) * a floppy (requires a floppy drive) then they boot from hdd. it

Re: LiveUSB OpenBSD and LiveCD-OpenBSD site updated

2012-04-09 Thread Mihai Popescu
Andres Perera wote: i don't understand why is such a simple problem turning into drama It is not. As for the understanding part, you need to identify what is stopping you in the first place - is it that english is not your first language and you don't have enough of it, or is it that you read

Re: LiveUSB OpenBSD and LiveCD-OpenBSD site updated

2012-04-09 Thread Andres Perera
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Mihai Popescu mih...@gmail.com wrote: B Andres Perera wote: B i don't understand why is such a simple problem turning into drama It is not. As for the understanding part, you need to identify what is stopping you in the first place - is it that english is not

Re: LiveUSB OpenBSD and LiveCD-OpenBSD site updated

2012-04-09 Thread Ted Unangst
On Mon, Apr 09, 2012, Andres Perera wrote: if they don't use the following to boot: * bootp (requires more than one system) * a cd (requires an optical drive) * a floppy (requires a floppy drive) then they boot from hdd. it doesn't matter if it's usb, sata or what have you there are no

Re: LiveUSB OpenBSD and LiveCD-OpenBSD site updated

2012-04-09 Thread Andres Perera
nope, not all bioses like that my hp mini's bios is only willing to do hdd emulation on usb sticks, so a dd'd iso or floppy image will not suffice (and hey, this inability isn't uncommon either) On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Ted Unangst t...@tedunangst.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 09, 2012, Andres

Re: LiveUSB OpenBSD and LiveCD-OpenBSD site updated

2012-04-07 Thread Nick Holland
On 04/06/12 07:35, Dan Shechter wrote: Hi, Sorry for the newbe question, but what is wrong with what he is doing? Best regards, Dan First of all, OpenBSD is completely free software. we can not, nor do we want to stop anyone from making their own project (or product) based on OpenBSD. That

Re: LiveUSB OpenBSD and LiveCD-OpenBSD site updated

2012-04-07 Thread Andres Perera
i don't understand why is such a simple problem turning into drama On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote: On 04/06/12 07:35, Dan Shechter wrote: Hi, Sorry for the newbe question, but what is wrong with what he is doing? Best regards, Dan First of

Re: LiveUSB OpenBSD and LiveCD-OpenBSD site updated

2012-04-06 Thread Mihai Popescu
Andres Perera andres.p () zoho ! com if you cant install through network because you only got one machine So you can't install OpenBSD but you CAN download the pre-made OpenBSD images? and feel that guerrilla overwriting your mbr after installing the locks within another os in order to do a

Re: LiveUSB OpenBSD and LiveCD-OpenBSD site updated

2012-04-06 Thread Jan Stary
On Apr 06 09:47:01, Mihai Popescu wrote: Andres Perera andres.p () zoho ! com if you cant install through network because you only got one machine So you can't install OpenBSD but you CAN download the pre-made OpenBSD images? and feel that guerrilla overwriting your mbr after

Re: LiveUSB OpenBSD and LiveCD-OpenBSD site updated

2012-04-06 Thread Andres Perera
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:17 AM, Mihai Popescu mih...@gmail.com wrote: Andres Perera andres.p () zoho ! com if you cant install through network because you only got one machine So you can't install OpenBSD but you CAN download the pre-made OpenBSD images? need another machine for bootp and

Re: LiveUSB OpenBSD and LiveCD-OpenBSD site updated

2012-04-06 Thread Dan Shechter
Hi, Sorry for the newbe question, but what is wrong with what he is doing? Best regards, Dan On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Jan Stary h...@stare.cz wrote: On Apr 01 21:30:58, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: After a long long time. Sigh. Please stop spreading this. All it does is give wrong

Re: LiveUSB OpenBSD and LiveCD-OpenBSD site updated

2012-04-02 Thread Jan Stary
On Apr 01 21:30:58, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: After a long long time. Sigh. Please stop spreading this. All it does is give wrong instruction and diverts people who should instead read http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#flashmemLive

Re: LiveUSB OpenBSD and LiveCD-OpenBSD site updated

2012-04-02 Thread Andres Perera
? he is hosting *pre-made* bootable usb images if you cant install through network because you only got one machine, don't have a cd drive (e.g. netbook), and feel that guerrilla overwriting your mbr after installing the locks within another os in order to do a hdd boot is too risky, you're left

Re: LiveUSB OpenBSD and LiveCD-OpenBSD site updated

2012-04-02 Thread Tomas Bodzar
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Jan Stary h...@stare.cz wrote: On Apr 01 21:30:58, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: After a long long time. Sigh. Please stop spreading this. All it does is give wrong instruction and diverts people who should instead read

LiveUSB OpenBSD and LiveCD-OpenBSD site updated

2012-04-01 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
After a long long time. Sigh. http://liveusb-openbsd.sf.net http://livecd-openbsd.sf.net -Girish -- G3 Tech Networking appliance company web: http://g3tech.in mail: gir...@g3tech.in

Olivebsd liveCD and using swap partitions

2008-04-01 Thread Mark Gary
I hope this question is relevant here in this group. I've just downloaded the Olivebsd CD, to try it out on my Laptop. I've got a 500Mb free partition doing nothing. Can that be utilised as a swap partition to be used when the CD is running, or is it possible to create a swap file on a FAT32

Re: Olivebsd liveCD and using swap partitions

2008-04-01 Thread Josh Grosse
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 14:06:26 +0100, Mark Gary wrote I hope this question is relevant here in this group. I've just downloaded the Olivebsd CD, to try it out on my Laptop. I've got a 500Mb free partition doing nothing. Can that be utilised as a swap partition to be used when the CD is running,

Re: Olivebsd liveCD and using swap partitions

2008-04-01 Thread B A
01.04.08, 17:06, Mark Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I hope this question is relevant here in this group. I've just downloaded the Olivebsd CD, to try it out on my Laptop. I've got a 500Mb free partition doing nothing. Can that be utilised as a swap partition to be used when the CD is running,

Re: Help with LiveCD/LIveDVD

2007-11-05 Thread Andreas Bihlmaier
exceeding a certain size and or containing more than a certain amount of files. There is a rather ugly, but at least working way around. Josh Grosse found it while building his live CDs, which can be found here, btw.: http://jggimi.homeip.net/livecd/faq.html The problem arouse with the KDE ones

Help with LiveCD/LIveDVD

2007-10-22 Thread Ted M. Goodridge, Jr.
Hello all, Please CC to me directly as I am offlist... I am building a LiveCD/LiveDVD based on OpenBSD 4.1 snapshot. I know this is an unofficial page, but I followed the instructions here: http://openbsd-wiki.org/index.php?title=LiveCD I'm using 4.1 because of the libraries required

Re: Help with LiveCD/LIveDVD

2007-10-22 Thread Nick Guenther
-translate -R -T -allow-leading-dots -l -d -D -N -v -b cdbr -no-emul-boot -c boot.catalog -o /tmp/livecd.iso /livecd Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm pushing against a deadline, so any tips / pointers / suggestions are also appreciated Have you tested the .iso in QEMU? Have

Re: Help with LiveCD/LIveDVD

2007-10-22 Thread Ted M. Goodridge, Jr.
actually be easy), just boot this liveCD. Has anyone else gotten a LiveDVD to work? Ted On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:21:06 -0500, Nick Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/22/07, Ted M. Goodridge, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, Please CC to me directly as I am offlist... Relevant info

Re: Help with LiveCD/LIveDVD

2007-10-22 Thread Ted M. Goodridge, Jr.
Just an update...it hangs on the message Loading /CDBOOT not cdbr as previously posted. Sorry about that. CC me directly as I am offlist. Ted Goodridge -- Hello all, Please CC to me directly as I am offlist... I am building a LiveCD/LiveDVD based on OpenBSD

Re: Help with LiveCD/LIveDVD

2007-10-22 Thread Ted M. Goodridge, Jr.
be easy), just boot this liveCD. Has anyone else gotten a LiveDVD to work? Ted If you make a LiveCD (not DVD) does it work? The How-to says you can use this to build a LiveDVD. I thought that the bios booted the same if it was a dvd or a cd...? I really need the space a DVD offers

Re: Help with LiveCD/LIveDVD

2007-10-22 Thread Nick Guenther
: --- I'm burning a re-writable DVD using the above instructions The mkisofs command to burn the image is as follows: /usr/local/bin/mkisofs -no-iso-translate -R -T -allow-leading-dots -l -d -D -N -v -b cdbr -no-emul-boot -c boot.catalog -o /tmp/livecd.iso /livecd Any help

Re: Help with LiveCD/LIveDVD

2007-10-22 Thread Nick Guenther
is apprecitated. I'm not trying to make install media (that would actually be easy), just boot this liveCD. Has anyone else gotten a LiveDVD to work? Ted If you make a LiveCD (not DVD) does it work? The How-to says you can use this to build a LiveDVD. I thought that the bios booted

Re: Help with LiveCD/LIveDVD

2007-10-22 Thread Pau Amaro-Seoane
. good luck, Pau 2007/10/22, Ted M. Goodridge, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello all, Please CC to me directly as I am offlist... I am building a LiveCD/LiveDVD based on OpenBSD 4.1 snapshot. I know this is an unofficial page, but I followed the instructions here: http://openbsd-wiki.org

Re: LiveCD

2006-12-26 Thread Andreas Bihlmaier
as the other LiveCD FAQS do not even talk about a second host. You do not _need_ a seperate installation, but it makes stuff much easier than installing everything into a chroot (incl. packages). If you want further advice lets take this private. Regards, ahb Andreas Bihlmaier-2 wrote: On Sat

Re: LiveCD

2006-12-24 Thread Andreas Bihlmaier
On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 03:49:25PM -0800, Passeur wrote: Hi, I am trying to build a live CD based on the official OpenBSD article. (http://www.openbsd-wiki.org/index.php?title=LiveCD) This is not official. qemu-img create ~/livecd.qemu.hd0 2G Ran fine, I have got a 2GB virtual drive

Re: LiveCD

2006-12-24 Thread Kenny Mann
Passeur wrote: Hi, I am trying to build a live CD based on the official OpenBSD article. (http://www.openbsd-wiki.org/index.php?title=LiveCD) Ok, modified front page: http://www.openbsd-wiki.org/index.php?title=Main_Pagediff=1889oldid=1851 Sorry to cause the misunderstanding. As others

Re: LiveCD

2006-12-24 Thread Passeur
Alright sorry guys I thought it was the official WIKI website. Anyway let say I can not use QEMU, which is the case, what would you recommend to build a live CD ? Having a second machine ? Even virtual, or can we bypass this step as the other LiveCD FAQS do not even talk about a second host

LiveCD

2006-12-23 Thread Passeur
Hi, I am trying to build a live CD based on the official OpenBSD article. (http://www.openbsd-wiki.org/index.php?title=LiveCD) qemu-img create ~/livecd.qemu.hd0 2G Ran fine, I have got a 2GB virtual drive. qemu -hda ~/livecd.qemu.hd0 -cdrom /home/cd40.iso -boot d Error message after validation

Re: LiveCD

2006-12-23 Thread Ray Percival
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Dec 23, 2006, at 3:49 PM, Passeur wrote: Hi, I am trying to build a live CD based on the official OpenBSD article. (http://www.openbsd-wiki.org/index.php?title=LiveCD) Nothing official' about it. They do not preach that their God will rouse

Re: livecd error

2006-12-03 Thread Andreas Bihlmaier
/a/bsd/2005/07/14/openbsd_live.html I start to dislike google (I know it is not googles fault), above is WAY outdated! Here are the up-to-date instructions: http://www.openbsd-wiki.org/index.php?title=LiveCD snip Regards, ahb

Re: livecd error

2006-12-03 Thread Andreas Bihlmaier
://www.openbsd-wiki.org/index.php?title=LiveCD Andreas, it's nice that you wrote that WIKI article and it's nice that you already pointed out where to find it before in this thread, but your blatant advertising of it when I explicitly asked how to fix come on you can't be serious-^ an issue

Re: livecd error

2006-12-02 Thread Tobias Weisserth
by Kevin Lo say: In the /usr/src/distrib/i386/ramdisk_cd directory, copy the two files bsd and cdrom36.fs to the /livecd directory. The cdrom36.fs in my case would be cdrom40.fs and has a fliesize bigger than 2.8MB anyway? I'm not able to spot any reference to any cdrom{version}.fs file being created

livecd error

2006-11-29 Thread Carlos A. Garcia G.
Hi, im trying to make a obsd livecd i use the instructions in http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/07/14/openbsd_live.html but in one step i get /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lstubs collect2: ld returned 1 exit status *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/distrib/i386/ramdisk_cd (line 10 of instbin.mk

Re: livecd error

2006-11-29 Thread Andreas Bihlmaier
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 09:05:35AM -0700, Carlos A. Garcia G. wrote: Hi, im trying to make a obsd livecd i use the instructions in http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/07/14/openbsd_live.html but in one step i get /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lstubs collect2: ld returned 1 exit status *** Error

Re: livecd error

2006-11-29 Thread Bill Maas
-0700, Carlos A. Garcia G. wrote: Hi, im trying to make a obsd livecd i use the instructions in http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/07/14/openbsd_live.html but in one step i get /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lstubs collect2: ld returned 1 exit status *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/distrib/i386

Re: new LiveCD instructions for OpenBSD

2006-10-25 Thread Andreas Bihlmaier
Just an update to this: Kenny Mann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) contacted be about www.openbsd-wiki.org he built and hosts. For one I'd like to thank him for doing this. Secondly I put my instructions there as well: http://openbsd-wiki.org/index.php/LiveCD Much easier to read than the old .txt

Re: new LiveCD instructions for OpenBSD

2006-10-25 Thread ropers
). Secondly I put my instructions there as well: http://openbsd-wiki.org/index.php/LiveCD Much easier to read than the old .txt description. Superb. Forget John Romero; Andreas Bihlmaier has made me his biatch. ;o)

Re: new LiveCD instructions for OpenBSD

2006-10-24 Thread Nick Guenther
LiveCD/DVD. They are far from perfect, but it works reasonably well (for me). With the instructions you can either create a CD or DVD. I'm too tired to test on amd64 at the moment, but it _should_ work exactly the same (that is one of the reasons I love OpenBSD, no as much pitfalls as in other OS

Re: new LiveCD instructions for OpenBSD

2006-10-24 Thread Andreas Bihlmaier
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 08:25:52AM +0900, vladas wrote: On 10/24/06, Andreas Bihlmaier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I finally got around to update my instructions on how to create an OpenBSD-based LiveCD/DVD. Is this LiveCD/DVD reliable enough to send in dmesg's from it? Exuse me, but I

Re: new LiveCD instructions for OpenBSD

2006-10-24 Thread Andreas Bihlmaier
On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 06:39:35PM -0500, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: I have been looking for a OpenBSD Kismet Live DVD with a X Front end, I wonder if a person could actually have Kismet and x on a Live DVD? or would it have to be able to write to a Disk? Sam Fourman Jr. You might be able to

Re: new LiveCD instructions for OpenBSD

2006-10-24 Thread Ryan McBride
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 02:37:05PM +0200, Andreas Bihlmaier wrote: On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 08:25:52AM +0900, vladas wrote: On 10/24/06, Andreas Bihlmaier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this LiveCD/DVD reliable enough to send in dmesg's from it? Exuse me, but I don't see a point in posting

Re: new LiveCD instructions for OpenBSD

2006-10-24 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
got around to update my instructions on how to create an OpenBSD-based LiveCD/DVD. They are far from perfect, but it works reasonably well (for me). With the instructions you can either create a CD or DVD. I'm too tired to test on amd64 at the moment, but it _should_ work exactly the same

Re: new LiveCD instructions for OpenBSD

2006-10-24 Thread Andreas Bihlmaier
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 01:51:45PM +, Ryan McBride wrote: On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 02:37:05PM +0200, Andreas Bihlmaier wrote: On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 08:25:52AM +0900, vladas wrote: On 10/24/06, Andreas Bihlmaier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this LiveCD/DVD reliable enough to send

Re: new LiveCD instructions for OpenBSD

2006-10-24 Thread Frank
Andreas Bihlmaier wrote: On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 01:51:45PM +, Ryan McBride wrote: On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 02:37:05PM +0200, Andreas Bihlmaier wrote: On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 08:25:52AM +0900, vladas wrote: On 10/24/06, Andreas Bihlmaier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this LiveCD/DVD reliable

new LiveCD instructions for OpenBSD

2006-10-23 Thread Andreas Bihlmaier
Hello misc@, Quite a few people sent me emails about my earier instructions, I posted here some time ago: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-miscm=1 Now I finally got around to update my instructions on how to create an OpenBSD-based LiveCD/DVD. They are far from perfect, but it works

Re: new LiveCD instructions for OpenBSD

2006-10-23 Thread vladas
On 10/24/06, Andreas Bihlmaier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I finally got around to update my instructions on how to create an OpenBSD-based LiveCD/DVD. Is this LiveCD/DVD reliable enough to send in dmesg's from it?

Re: new LiveCD instructions for OpenBSD

2006-10-23 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
PROTECTED] wrote: Now I finally got around to update my instructions on how to create an OpenBSD-based LiveCD/DVD. Is this LiveCD/DVD reliable enough to send in dmesg's from it?

LiveCD thread

2005-09-26 Thread Alari Kask
A few months ago, i put together some intsructions for making a livecd, but didn't have the time to complete it, i'll post them here, and if anybody wants, we can work on it together and complete it and post it to the mailinglist and perhaps openbsdsupport.org ? So here we go : # cd /usr