I don't need a special need case. I have already configured the system I need, but it would have been nice to know about these configuration options earlier. It was only because of Linux that I became aware of some of the stuff like what vlc is and I fooled around with Web pages and virtual HDs enough, along with a couple few thousand line c programs one to recursively glob search through directory listing and return them in stdout (which some similar program undoubtedly exists) and one to search through file contents and return a roundrobin array snippet of file contents showing the context in which the search value is used. (FYI, I have a C program from my artificial intelligence class that beats gomoku even if the gomoku goes first. And my program only uses a 10x10 board. It beats it before it goes outside of those constraints.) Anyway, my point is that OpenBSD doesn't need to be a research OS as Theo has stated. It could have some minor tweaks to the install that undoubtedly could persuade users to continue. But maybe that is the mindset of the OpenBSD hacker. Make it hard and difficult for everybody that doesn't want to spend their life away searching for commands they don't know about. If my Asus laptop, which I figured out at the time needed to disable a configuration option, would have accepted feeebsd, I suspect I would have gone with them. Not because they had more up to date software systems like kde, but because their system doesn't put up a fight against the user and doesn't self-destruct any time it needs to fsck: By Default.
On 12/21/15, li...@wrant.com <li...@wrant.com> wrote: >> Luke Small <lukensm...@gmail.com> >> > [...] It would be very easy to write a C >> > program to parse and edit fstab to make all the partitions softdep. >> > I >> > wouldn't know how to automate a disklabel call in the way that >> > >> > https://www.vultr.com/docs/setup-openbsd-5-6-with-full-disk-encryption >> > performs it. [...] > > See how when you start getting funny ideas on top of an online tutorial > elsewhere made you look completely out of touch with reality? This is > happening over and over. While simply reading man pages and the > OpenBSD frequently asked question suffices. > > On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 12:07:02 +0100 Carsten Kunze <carsten.ku...@arcor.de> >> >> Not necessary that you tinker with a C programm, there is already >> sed(1) which can change fstab and disklabel. >> >> The current installer is just perfect. For any additional task a >> generic method would be that you write a shell script which >> does your complete personal system configuration. > > Exactly so. > > Now the next question, who can first find the actual installer in the > CVS tree? Please report your findings to Luke, who needs tips how to > extend it for his own use case. > -- -Luke
