If that's a new install, may as well just redo it.
The install is really fast, so this way you are sure you have a clean
system and NOT one that you may have problem down the road, specially if
that's your first time.
That's what I would do anyway.
Compare to any other IS, the install for OpenBSD is the fastest I ever
seen, except may be NixOS when you move it to a new system. (;
On 4/27/23 5:31 PM, Odd Martin Baanrud wrote:
Hello,
I’m blind, and got sighted help to install OpenBSD on the machine which should
become a new router.
Unfortunately, I was stupid enough to detach the USB stick I booted from,
before I was to hit R for the reboot.
The result was that the last selection disappeared due to the detach message
from the kernel, and I didn’t manage to get it back.
The only way I thaught could be used for reboot was to hit ctrl+Z, and then
type reboot.
And it “worked”.
When I connected the machine to the LAN afterwords, I didn’t get contact.
After trying a few things, I finally got an IP on it, with the correct hostname.
(I connected a keyboard, logged in as root, and configured one of the
interfaces with ifconfig $if autoconf.)
I’ve good expereince doing so without braille.
So the machine got an IP, but still no contact, either with ping or ssh.
I then realized that mandatory files has not been written, including the
hostname.if file for the NIC used durring install.
And I guess others too. :-)
Which files are actually written when rebooting the corret way?
I’ve OpenBSD 7.3 installed on both a arm64 and a i386 machine.
Can I use the missing files from one of those?
I should be able to copy them to a USB stick, and mount it and get the files in
place without sighted help.
And the network interface can be configured with dhcp for now.
As soon as the machine is on the lan, I’ll ssh into it from a linux machine
with a braille display.
Regards, Martin
PS: I’ve now learned that one should reboot _BEFORE_ detaching any external
device when the installer is still running. :-)
