Re: Can command-line options be specified in any place?

2011-06-23 Thread Scott Stanley
> OpenBSD specifically and old BSD in general is not true to Unix. From > ksh to billions of options to find and other tools to the entire > networking framework (bolted on with additional syscalls, pseudo devices > etc), nothing of that is Unix (or even -like). > Here is something to read: http:/

Re: Like OpenBSD? Like to see new stuff happening? You really need to order a CD today :)

2011-04-23 Thread Scott Stanley
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:08:47AM -0600, Devin Reade wrote: > Benny Lofgren wrote: > > If I was to say the following, would it work without causing an > unacceptable amount of work? > > "My company wants to pay you to develop or fix (where > is already on the short list of what is planned for

Re: Like OpenBSD? Like to see new stuff happening? You really need to order a CD today :)

2011-04-22 Thread Scott Stanley
> Anyway, as Marco and others pointed out, there is an easy way for me to > achieve what I want, and that is to order the number of CD sets I want and > write a manual note to ship only one set out of those ordered. That has the > added benefit that the remaining sets can be resold to someone else,

Re: Please help me decide: OpenWrt vs. OpenBSD

2011-01-19 Thread Scott Stanley
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:18 PM, S Mathias wrote: > I have a RouterBoard 450G [680 Mhz cpu, 256 MB ram, 512 MB flash]. I just > can't decide what to put on it: > > OpenWrt or > OpenBSD > > Things needed on it: > > Firewall; DHCP, NAT, NTP client; PPPoE; SFTP; DynDNS; VPN [1-2 client]; > Statisti

Re: Donations

2010-12-04 Thread Scott Stanley
Roger that; thanks for the info; I obviously need to stay more informed (my mistake is not reading US news and believing it, but rather mistrusting all news and getting none). On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: > In the future, if people can show preference for the non-Paypal >

Re: installation sets not found on CD

2010-12-01 Thread Scott Stanley
> Once you have installed the system, think about posting the "cd0" relevant > part of the dmesg too, or better together with the complete dmesg output. > That will help developers and future googlers even more. > > Has the readability of the CD-ROM changed? And with different CD-ROMs? Could > also

Re: installation sets not found on CD

2010-11-30 Thread Scott Stanley
just for the record (for future googlers): I dusted off my CD, tried again; no luck. while still in the installer (set installation phase): -removed CD -copied the /4.8/i386 directory from CD onto a flash drive on another machine -replaced CD and plugged in usb -pointed the installer to the usb dir

installation sets not found on CD

2010-11-29 Thread Scott Stanley
Someone gave me a bunch of HP Proliant DL360 G3 servers, so I promptly went to install 4.8 i386 on one to see if it was worth keeping. (I'm just playing around at home with these) Installer makes it all the way to installation set(s) location, then kernel says: ASC/ASCQ: ASC 0X20 ASCQ 0X00 cd0(at

Re: Architeture Choose

2010-11-11 Thread Scott Stanley
> However, you can add one of these for ~30USD: > > sili0 at pci3 dev 1 function 0 "CMD Technology SiI3124 SATA" rev 0x02: apic > 4 int 1 (irq 5) > scsibus1 at sili0: 4 targets > > And an external drive(s) Thanks for the tip (yet another device I didn't know existed). The rackmount hard drive encl

Re: Architeture Choose

2010-11-10 Thread Scott Stanley
Thank you all for humoring this caveman's ponderings. I missed one glaring detail about the V20z; SCSI drives ($$). I've got about 800GB of data to serve (very infrequent access; mostly just to stream One Piece episodes to my TV on the weekends, so I figured form factor could take priority over a

Re: Architeture Choose

2010-11-09 Thread Scott Stanley
I've heard a lot of praise for Sparc gear on this thread. Do many of you have much experience with Sun's amd gear? When using the "I'm only referring to Sparc" disclaimer, what's being implied here (because I know nobody's saying that hardware fails because of the CPU type, or am I wrong on that)?