Re: You have installed OpenBSD. Now for the daily tasks (blog post)

On Sat, Sep 07, 2024 at 11:05:07AM +0200, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: Hi Reese, On Fri, Sep 06, 2024 at 08:28:40PM -0400, Reese Johnson wrote: Peter thanks much appreciated. Fan of your blog for many years. I have learned a lot from it. [ ... ] As you may have noticed, new blog post go to b

Re: Alternative mailing lists

On Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 05:03:25PM +, Anon Loli wrote: The problem is that I have been censored plenty of times on @misc, @bugs and probably also @tech, I cannot see, that you're being censored here: I've seen quite a few emails this month from you on various openbsd lists - the latest one

bad first impression [ ...] Fwd: [HUNSN RJ43: USB keyboard lost at boot time]

Attached Harald Dunkels original message from a few days ago, taken from my offline @misc folder. It seems this is the message he mentioned in this current thread - strangely enough I couldn't find it anywhere in the marc.info archive. HTH Wolfgang - Forwarded message from Harald Dunkel

bad impression [etc ..] Fwd: [HUNSN RJ43: USB keyboard lost at boot time]

Attached Harald Dunkels original message from a few days ago, taken from my offline @misc folder. It seems this is the message Harald mentioned in this current thread - strangely enough I couldn't find it anywhere in the marc.info archive. HTH Wolfgang - Forwarded message from Harald Dunke

Re: OpenBSD Installation Doesn't Detect NVMe SSD, but Detects My USB Drives

On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 08:38:51PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 08:29:21AM +0200, aliyu...@tutanota.com wrote: Hello, I'm currently trying to install OpenBSD on my laptop, and I'm coming across a problem. The installation only detects my installation dr

Re: OpenBSD Installation Doesn't Detect NVMe SSD, but Detects My USB Drives

On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 08:29:21AM +0200, aliyu...@tutanota.com wrote: Hello, I'm currently trying to install OpenBSD on my laptop, and I'm coming across a problem. The installation only detects my installation drive and my other USB flash drive that I use for data storage, but not my NVMe SSD I

Re: 7.5 NO hard drive?

On Sun, Apr 07, 2024 at 05:17:25PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Sun, Apr 07, 2024 at 12:03:21AM -0700, lati...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: Hello i have 1 DELL Latitude E4300 that had OBSD 7.3 working correctly, but i decided to do a clean installation of 7.5 deleting everything on it with a live cd

Re: 7.5 NO hard drive?

On Sun, Apr 07, 2024 at 05:17:25PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Sun, Apr 07, 2024 at 12:03:21AM -0700, lati...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: So OpenBSD has been correctly installed, thanks so much to maintain it nice! The problem was with the BIOS, it needs IHCH or something like that to be

Re: 7.5 NO hard drive?

On Sun, Apr 07, 2024 at 12:03:21AM -0700, lati...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: Hello i have 1 DELL Latitude E4300 that had OBSD 7.3 working correctly, but i decided to do a clean installation of 7.5 deleting everything on it with a live cd linux; then tested 7.5 and it says NO disk. After that i tested Lin

Re: Feedback on redesigned OpenBSD.org

On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 10:38:46PM -0400, Amelia A Lewis wrote: On Fri, 11 Aug 2023 20:11:02 -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: When did it become an assumption that we would adopt any of these changes? I don't think that it did become an assumption, but as a number of people have responded to the

Re: Mail Etiquette: Reply above or below

On Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 11:58:14AM +0100, Christer Solskogen wrote: Someone way smarter than me said this: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Why is top-posting such a bad thing? Top-posting. What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? You sure? ... Quoting Nick

Re: Softraid crypto metadata backup

On Sat, Jan 07, 2023 at 02:33:31PM +, Nathan Carruth wrote: The way I see it, this depends on one's use case.  There certainly are cases where it is important to be able to irrevocably destroy all data in an instant. But there are also use cases where one is only interested in making sure tha

Re: Installing OpenBSD on new Chromebook

As it seems to be an x86_64 machine why not try a fresh OpenBSD Live system via USB or DVD and and see what happens? https://fuguita.org/ Wolfgang On Sat, Oct 29, 2022 at 08:11:15AM -0600, Jeff Ross wrote: On 10/29/22 1:29 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2022-10-28, Gabriel Busch de Brito wr

Re: Web documentation available offline by default?

On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 03:36:02PM +, Ottavio Caruso wrote: It's also a pity the the faq are not available in a single html or pdf format. This would be handy for those who, like me, are studying for the BSD Specialist certification. Having a single document makes it easier to search for a s

Re: OpenBSD FAQ - Using S/Key - hash algorithm selection

Both links may be really helpful to gauge the hashes used for an skey system, theoretically. So thank you for providing them. But sadly, if I didn't miss anything, they do not describe the real life circumstances needed for some successful attack on the skey hashes. For example how much time is n

Re: umass device disklabel not detected properly in macppc

Short version: Looks like something's wrong either with your hardware or software: I have the same computer, with OBSD 6.5 installed, and no problems mounting thumbs - maybe try another thumb, or recreate the ext2 partition, or use a stable OBSD, instead of current ... Here on macppc: hw.pr

Re: When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?

On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 12:52:18PM +0300, Mihai Popescu wrote: Still wondering what "great desktop experience" means ... Bullshit, that's what it means. In nearly 20 years on mailing lists and on the internet, I don't remember to have ever seen anyone asking such a stupid question like the on

Re: xbox 360 wireless controller on amd64 working?

On Tue, May 07, 2019 at 12:55:24AM +, tfrohw...@fastmail.com wrote: On May 6, 2019 8:55:41 PM UTC, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Hi all Has anyone actually tried to use that controller on a fresh or older OpenBSD? If yes: successful? [ .. ] Sorry, wireless won't work without a Blue

xbox 360 wireless controller on amd64 working?

Hi all Has anyone actually tried to use that controller on a fresh or older OpenBSD? If yes: successful? I found hints in the 6.5 ports tree relating to that controller (and the sdl2 package seems to be part of the regular packages tree, too) ../ports/devel/premake4/files/scripts.c ../ports/d

Re: Upgrade procedure (6.4 -> 6.5)

Ingo, and Everyone, On Sun, May 05, 2019 at 02:58:18PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: Hi Wolfgang, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote on Sat, May 04, 2019 at 06:34:04PM +0200: On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 01:07:34AM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: Spend a little time learning OpenBSD, Yes: time needed, I think

Re: Upgrade procedure (6.4 -> 6.5)

On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 01:07:34AM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: On 5/3/19 2:32 PM, Strahil Nikolov wrote: On May 3, 2019 10:49:55 PM GMT+03:00, Nick Holland wrote: On 5/2/19 1:52 AM, Consus wrote: [ ... ] I tried to update a VM (stock setup) with a 10 GB disk from 6.4 to 6.5 and thus it

Re: Code of Conduct location

On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 03:33:50PM +0200, Rachel Roch wrote: Apr 28, 2019, 9:16 AM by cho...@jtan.com : [ .. ] I believe OpenBSD's code of conduct can be summed up as "if you are the type of person who needs a code of conduct to teach to you how to human then you are n