Re: Adding a prompt on the installer before overwriting the partition table

2021-06-28 Thread Renzo Fabriek
Just tried the installer to see what the deafult option was. It was the OpenBSD partition and can't remember what the deafult option is without a OpenBSD partition. If that defaults to Whole you would have a better point. (thinking of the keyboard buffer when impaciant) Otherwise pressing

Re: Adding a prompt on the installer before overwriting the partition table

2021-06-28 Thread Renzo Fabriek
Most PC's have a BIOS boot menu which make it easy to use multiple OSes on seperate disks. Disks are cheap. Not worth the trouble of bootmanagers. Van: owner-m...@openbsd.org namens Theo de Raadt Verzonden: maandag 28 juni 2021 16:53 Aan: Parodper CC:

Re: growfs on bsd.rd

2013-01-09 Thread Renzo Fabriek
On Wednesday 09 January 2013 05:38:26 Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: On 2013-01-04 00:41, Aaron Mason wrote: On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera h...@osvaldobarrera.com.ar wrote: Hi all, I'm curious as to why growfs is not included in bsd.rd. Is there any particular

Re: how to make power off button work like halt -p

2012-11-22 Thread Renzo Fabriek
On Thursday 22 November 2012 16:13:26 眼镜蛇 wrote: i need to install openbsd on a blind computer(without monitor).so i need to press power off button to shutdown the computer.i know that use ssh is a right way. but press power off is more effective way. in the version 5.2, i just

Re: pxeboot, machine dependent kernel

2012-09-08 Thread Renzo Fabriek
On Saturday 08 September 2012 15:11:07 Ville Valkonen wrote: On 7 September 2012 23:14, russell russ...@dotplan.dyndns.org wrote: On 09/08/12 03:34, Ville Valkonen wrote: On 7 September 2012 14:08, russell russ...@dotplan.dyndns.org wrote: I have doing quite a lot of netbooting lately.

Re: power button halt vs reboot(8) and halt(8)

2012-07-14 Thread Renzo Fabriek
On Saturday 14 July 2012 01:02:12 Norman Golisz wrote: On Fri Jul 13 2012 23:58, frantisek holop wrote: hi there, how different is the code path between reboot(8), halt(8) and when i press the power button? the reason i ask is, that fairly often, reboot(8) and halt(8) hangs (X

Re: missing /etc/fstab

2012-07-08 Thread Renzo Fabriek
On Sunday 08 July 2012 14:07:44 Илья Шипицин wrote: Hello! I remember some early 5.1 snapshot which installed and successfully run without /etc/fstab however, 5.1-RELEASE came with /etc/fstab it would be nice to move system from one server to another without having to bother about

Re: making packages

2012-05-11 Thread Renzo Fabriek
On Friday 11 May 2012 15:15:23 Dimitry T wrote: I want to create packages from compiled port, copy to usb and install on another computer. After trying with make package in xfce4-session port tree i got only one package. How to include all dependencies and all needed to install the application

Re: making packages

2012-05-11 Thread Renzo Fabriek
packages On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 05:24:43PM +0200, Renzo Fabriek wrote: On Friday 11 May 2012 15:15:23 Dimitry T wrote: I want to create packages from compiled port, copy to usb and install on another computer. After trying with make package in xfce4-session port tree i got only one

Re: making packages

2012-05-11 Thread Renzo Fabriek
@openbsd.org Subject: Re: making packages On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 07:48:15PM +0200, Renzo Fabriek wrote: As for pkg_create. The manual explains that very well, it even provides an example. I don't repeat it here. Just look a bit further. But as far as I can see you'll have to do

Re: Why does the ports system delete distfiles?

2012-05-06 Thread Renzo Fabriek
On Sunday 06 May 2012 18:24:21 Alan Corey wrote: I just saw another good reason to hit ctrl-C. I'm on a modem, and I just hit boost_1_42_0.tar.gz in an install. That's 40 megs, more than I can download in a day. I need to use a different process, like put the url in a text file and feed

Re: Does your USB keyboard Dot key on keypad fail? Was Re: Shuttle XS35 v2 - One key going loco

2012-04-03 Thread Renzo Fabriek
On Tuesday 03 April 2012 05:35:24 Opera wrote: Hlo, The reason for putting this on top is that I have data that are showing that I can not blame the Shuttle. Here is the brief infos- When using a USB keyboard [native USB or with an adaptor for ps2] the keypad Del key works perfectly

Re: Does your USB keyboard Dot key on keypad fail? Was Re: Shuttle XS35 v2 - One key going loco

2012-04-03 Thread Renzo Fabriek
On Tuesday 03 April 2012 14:02:20 Opera wrote: On 3/04/2012 15:54, patrick keshishian wrote: On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Operaop...@witworx.com wrote: Hlo, The reason for putting this on top is that I have data that are showing that I can not blame the Shuttle. Here is

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-11 Thread Renzo Fabriek
On Sunday 11 March 2012 07:57:35 Nomen Nescio wrote: You wrote: On Friday 09 March 2012 13:10:13 Nomen Nescio wrote: Who in their right mind would EVER want to run this crap? You answered your own question. My guess? People who are too cheap to buy Windows and too stupid to

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Renzo Fabriek
On Friday 09 March 2012 13:10:13 Nomen Nescio wrote: Who in their right mind would EVER want to run this crap? You answered your own question. My guess? People who are too cheap to buy Windows and too stupid to figure out how to find a free copy of XP or Win 7 on the net and do the

Re: Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions - WTF?

2012-03-09 Thread Renzo Fabriek
On Friday 09 March 2012 19:19:33 Nick Holland wrote: oh good, people DID notice this. I was starting to wonder. Note: any return to the old, boring FAQ title for 5.1 is purely due to lack of creativity on my part, not dullards like this guy. Though, I do admit his posting is prompting me

Re: My OpenBSD 5.0 installation experience (long rant)

2012-03-07 Thread Renzo Fabriek
On Wednesday 07 March 2012 15:27:51 Leonardo Sabino dos Santos wrote: On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Russell Garrison russell.garri...@gmail.com wrote: I am absolutely intrigued by this story despite my better judgement. You were able to cook your own full OpenBSD installer on a USB stick

Re: Trusting the Installation

2012-03-04 Thread Renzo Fabriek
On Sunday 04 March 2012 12:12:19 Anonymous Remailer (austria) wrote: the reason is you can download source code, look at it, make sure for yourself there's no backdoors, build your own ISO from source code You can but nobody does. If the entire OpenBSD team can't finish a complete audit of

Re: What's the location trash after move to trash

2012-02-03 Thread Renzo Fabriek
Try .Trash-1000 (1000 is user-id) gr Renzo On Thursday 02 February 2012 06:05:47 lbvvbooo lbvvbooo wrote: I checked folder ~/.local/share/Trash/files/, and test it again, still can't find the deleted files. The trash icon does NOT show them either. Anybody help? Thanks. Date:

Re: openbsd boot after installation failed: i am desperate.

2005-06-30 Thread Renzo Fabriek
: 0 ] unused 3: 000 0 0 -0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused Notice the asterix (*) . This marks the actvie partition that the bios will boot. Do you see the differnce between the two configurations? [snip rest] Greetings Renzo Fabriek