Re: Installing OpenBSD on new Chromebook

2022-10-28 Thread Gabriel Busch de Brito
> All of places I'm finding with directions on how to do this are from circa > 2015 and do not work now. > > Anybody have a pointer to a more updated set of directions I can try? I suggest that you follow the installation guide at the FAQ section of the website. Best, G

Re: Installing OpenBSD on new Chromebook

2022-10-28 Thread Jérôme Desquilbet
Hi all, I got a nice new laptop at Costco for under $200.  I did the developer mode to get to a linux shell and installed a bunch of programs but I'd rather just wipe the whole disk and install OpenBSD. All of places I'm finding with directions on how to do this are from circa 2015 and do

Installing OpenBSD on new Chromebook

2022-10-28 Thread Jeff Ross
Hi all, I got a nice new laptop at Costco for under $200. I did the developer mode to get to a linux shell and installed a bunch of programs but I'd rather just wipe the whole disk and install OpenBSD. All of places I'm finding with directions on how to do this are from circa 2015 and do

Re: Many video frames dropped unless sound is muted

2022-10-28 Thread Richard Ulmer
Hi again, > As a side note: After upgrading from 7.0 to 7.1 I experienced a > significant increase in audio stutter. Sometimes (I think when a > "hiccup" became too big) YouTube would even pause a video on it's own or > mpd(1) would stop playback. As a workaround I increased the buffer size >

Re: VMware Tools driver to advertise OS as 'FreeBSD 64-bit' OS, not 32-bit version

2022-10-28 Thread Mike Larkin
On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 12:30:11PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > Kalabic S, wrote: > > > To be more precise, I wanted to say sticking with FreeBSD means > > sticking with whatever behavior VMware will keep consistent and > > support in the future. For "Others" option I don't think they care and >

Re: VMware Tools driver to advertise OS as 'FreeBSD 64-bit' OS, not 32-bit version

2022-10-28 Thread Theo de Raadt
Kalabic S, wrote: > To be more precise, I wanted to say sticking with FreeBSD means > sticking with whatever behavior VMware will keep consistent and > support in the future. For "Others" option I don't think they care and > is more probable to vary. I cannot tell the difference. I think you

Re: VMware Tools driver to advertise OS as 'FreeBSD 64-bit' OS, not 32-bit version

2022-10-28 Thread Kalabic S,
On 10/28/22 18:29, Theo de Raadt wrote: Kalabic S. wrote: Also, OpenBSD really is part of BSD family. That is such a load of crap. You have absolutely no idea what vmware is doing behind the scenes based upon that string. Obviously, it is doing stuff. But you want to say "oh family".

Re: VMware Tools driver to advertise OS as 'FreeBSD 64-bit' OS, not 32-bit version

2022-10-28 Thread Kalabic S,
On 10/28/22 19:06, Mike Larkin wrote: On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 06:25:11PM +0200, Kalabic S. wrote: In my testing, this has no effect on the operation of the clock. Only the guest OS selected in the VM configuration does have an effect. We should remove any suggestion that 32bit FreeBSD is

Re: VMware Tools driver to advertise OS as 'FreeBSD 64-bit' OS, not 32-bit version

2022-10-28 Thread Mike Larkin
On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 06:25:11PM +0200, Kalabic S. wrote: > > In my testing, this has no effect on the operation of the clock. Only > > the guest OS selected in the VM configuration does have an effect. > > We should remove any suggestion that 32bit FreeBSD is the right thing > > to select

Re: VMware Tools driver to advertise OS as 'FreeBSD 64-bit' OS, not 32-bit version

2022-10-28 Thread Theo de Raadt
Kalabic S. wrote: > I have an OpenBSD VM running without issues as a guest with 'FreeBSD' > option for years and serving as an Internet router for home > network. IMO, it's pretty good chice. I want to say more. You really have no idea what you are talking about. The difference between 7.1

Re: VMware Tools driver to advertise OS as 'FreeBSD 64-bit' OS, not 32-bit version

2022-10-28 Thread Theo de Raadt
Kalabic S. wrote: > Also, OpenBSD really is part of BSD family. That is such a load of crap. You have absolutely no idea what vmware is doing behind the scenes based upon that string. Obviously, it is doing stuff. But you want to say "oh family". Stop it.

Re: VMware Tools driver to advertise OS as 'FreeBSD 64-bit' OS, not 32-bit version

2022-10-28 Thread Kalabic S.
> In my testing, this has no effect on the operation of the clock. Only > the guest OS selected in the VM configuration does have an effect. > We should remove any suggestion that 32bit FreeBSD is the right thing > to select though, so changing the guest OS we report is still a good > idea. >

Re: Syncthing permissions question

2022-10-28 Thread Jag Talon
On Thu, 27 Oct 2022 16:43:03 -0500 ITwrx wrote: > i find midnight commander's representation of permissions [1] to be > helpful when first learning about them. You might check that out > going forward. Ah wonderful thank you for the tip!

OpenBSD-current boot stuck at efi0 entry

2022-10-28 Thread Mihai Popescu
I was trying to install OpenBSD-current from snapshots, UEFI mode boot and GPT disk - the install went fine, but the boot after installation remains stuck at efi0 entry listing. I have to use the switch off button to exit from this. The install and boot works if I use Legacy mode boot with MBR