Starting out

[Jannik Pruitt]

Hi everyone.

I got my netier xl 1000 runing now.
It has full network and I can ssh to and from.
X does come up.

thanks for the help with the config on the 32GB CF card.

What I want to do now is put a better terminal in.
A small office suite either console or X based or both.

And I want to install a web browser

Is there a guide or a help page you can point me to.

I know that Open BSD is not really a desk top system.
But its so low in installed space

Thanks

Re: CF Card setup

[Jannik Pruitt]

Hi Nick and Joakim thanks for writing back.
I am not really sure of the rules.
This is the first time I have ever used any BSD except for an Apple PC.

I do have some linux experience.

I was running Puppy Linux on my old Netier XL1000 box and it was not doing
so well even with puppy and I wanted to learn more about BSD.  I checked
the basic system requirements and I have 256mb an S3 graphics card a common
Tbase T card built on the board.

I assume the ifconfig is about the same as linux.  The networking worked
well with Puppy.

The end goal is have a small file server, web server, emacs, sc, bc and
alpine on the little box.  It has 32GB CF card.
I thought about slackware also as it has CF install built in but again I
heard so much from the podscast I wanted to give it try.

So this is what happens when I type in www.google.com host not reachable,
my router also,  ssh sdf.lonestar.org also not working

ifconfig says
lo0 (up loop back running multicast mtu 33196
R10 Media enthernet auto  (This is normally the IP address I think but
there is not one)
Enco - also active
PFlog0 also active

When I log in it says:
openBSD/i386 (Netier1000.speedport_W_723V_type_A) (TTYC0)

>From the answers I got I think i have change the Enternet card setting.
But there is no command to run the networking or Xgraphics set up again?



On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Joakim Aronius  wrote:

> * Jannik Pruitt (pruttel...@googlemail.com) wrote:
> > Is there a way to make the setup come up again?
>
> If there is a RS232 serial port you could use that to get console access
> using a serial cable from som other machine.
> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq7.html#SerCon
>
> This is really good to have if you do not have a graphics card in the box.
> Not only for initial install but also for upgrades to new releases! You can
> find cheapo USB-serial converters on eBay etc if you don't have RS232 on
> e.g. the laptop you want to connect to the thin client.
>
> /joakim

CF Card setup

[Jannik Pruitt]

Hi everyone.
i am brand new purchased my open bsd 5.0 on 11 Nov 2011.

I booted the CD on another computer installed every thing on a 32GB CF card.
Placed in my old thin client and it booked.

But the network card does not work.
It did work on the other computer after the install.

Is there a way to make the setup come up again?

Thanks

John