Wireless network interface remembering join list across /etc/netstart.
Recently i got really confused after removing a 'join ... ' line from /etc/hostname.iwn0, then running `sh /etc/netstart`. This resulted in reconnection to , even though was now not mentioned anywhere in /etc/hostname.iwn0. Even `ifconfig iwn0 down up` did not change this behaviour. It turned out that i needed to do `ifconfig iwn0 down -joinlist up` to remove all networks from the join list, as described in ifconfig(8). [I'm not actually sure that the `down` and `up` are necessary.] Would it be possible and make sense to have /etc/netstart do this automatically for wireless interfaces? Or am i misunderstanding what /etc/netstart is for? Thanks for any help, - Jules -- http://op59.net
Re: Convert a Linux VPS to OpenBSD
W dniu 20.06.2022 o 17:47, Étienne pisze: Hello there, This is a bit of a long shot, but I'm trying my luck: There used to be a community thread on Scaleway's documentation website that explained how to convert a Linux instance to an OpenBSD instance, because no OpenBSD ISO image was available in their console. It seems that this doc disappeared as their documentation section has changed format, and I can't find it on archive.org either. I would like to try and apply the same process at another VPS provider. Does anyone remember or know how this was done, and would they be kind enough to summarise it here, please? Thanks! $ wget -O /bsd.rd https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.1/amd64/bsd.rd Reboot and enter grub shell grub> kopenbsd /bsd.rd grub> boot Paths will differ if /boot is on seperate partition. Or using VPS provider that actually supports openbsd could also be a good solution. -- Łukasz Moskała
Re: Convert a Linux VPS to OpenBSD
On 6/20/22 11:47 AM, Étienne wrote: Hello there, This is a bit of a long shot, but I'm trying my luck: There used to be a community thread on Scaleway's documentation website that explained how to convert a Linux instance to an OpenBSD instance, because no OpenBSD ISO image was available in their console. It seems that this doc disappeared as their documentation section has changed format, and I can't find it on archive.org either. I would like to try and apply the same process at another VPS provider. Does anyone remember or know how this was done, and would they be kind enough to summarise it here, please? Thanks! Assuming you have console and can do your own install, perhaps doing a Linux install and leaving a chunk of the beginning of the "disk" unallocated, then dd the minirootXX.img over the very beginning of the "disk", then rebooting. This should get you into the OpenBSD installer, assuming you actually overwrote the beginning of the logical disk and not a Linux partition. A hard reset or "power cycle" might work better than a reboot, as you don't want the Linux system updating anything on the disk partition tables after the dd is complete (if "reboot" even works at that point). However, you might want to think long and hard about committing to a VPS that doesn't actively support the OS you wish to install. What works today may faceplant tomorrow and they may not care at all to fix it for you. Nick.
Re: Convert a Linux VPS to OpenBSD
On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 11:54 AM Étienne wrote: > Hello there, > > This is a bit of a long shot, but I'm trying my luck: There used to be a > community thread on Scaleway's documentation website that explained how > to convert a Linux instance to an OpenBSD instance, because no OpenBSD > ISO image was available in their console. It seems that this doc > disappeared as their documentation section has changed format, and I > can't find it on archive.org either. I would like to try and apply the > same process at another VPS provider. Does anyone remember or know how > this was done, and would they be kind enough to summarise it here, please? > > Thanks! > > -- > Étienne > > 1/ boot single user 1.bis / think 2/ write disk 3/ profit Not much time
Convert a Linux VPS to OpenBSD
Hello there, This is a bit of a long shot, but I'm trying my luck: There used to be a community thread on Scaleway's documentation website that explained how to convert a Linux instance to an OpenBSD instance, because no OpenBSD ISO image was available in their console. It seems that this doc disappeared as their documentation section has changed format, and I can't find it on archive.org either. I would like to try and apply the same process at another VPS provider. Does anyone remember or know how this was done, and would they be kind enough to summarise it here, please? Thanks! -- Étienne
