Re: P2V with VMWare -> "ERR M"

2008-02-28 Thread Nick Holland
RANT ALERT!! RANT ALERT!! Zlfar M. E. Johnson wrote: > Thanks for the replay. I was not sure which man page you were referring to, > but I took a quick glance at installboot. > I have often cloned linux systems at work with rsync. I have also done > bare-bone restores using system-rescue cd and

Re: P2V with VMWare -> "ERR M"

2008-02-28 Thread William Boshuck
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 07:24:41AM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > On 09:42:17 Feb 28, Steve Shockley wrote: > > > Recipes don't teach you how to cook. > > I can second this ... > > In spite of my making mistakes and experimentation > I still cannot be sure how my dish will end up tasting.

Re: P2V with VMWare -> "ERR M"

2008-02-28 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 09:42:17 Feb 28, Steve Shockley wrote: > Recipes don't teach you how to cook. > I can second this because I have been cooking for more than three years now. And God alone knows how hard it has been. I never consult any book or even the Internet. I simply ask ladies and that too the ones who

Re: P2V with VMWare -> "ERR M"

2008-02-28 Thread Steve Shockley
Fabian Heusser wrote: Yes a howto would be nice, for windows there are many, for linux some, and for Openbsd not so many. Recipes don't teach you how to cook.

Re: P2V with VMWare -> "ERR M"

2008-02-28 Thread Fabian Heusser
skyrr.is > > http://www.skyrr.is/legal/disclaimer.txt > -Original Message- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fabian Heusser > Sent: 27. febrzar 2008 17:47 > To: Zlfar M. E. Johnson > Subject: Re: P2V with VMWare -> "ERR

Re: P2V with VMWare -> "ERR M"

2008-02-28 Thread Úlfar M . E . Johnson
claimer.txt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fabian Heusser Sent: 27. febrzar 2008 17:47 To: Zlfar M. E. Johnson Subject: Re: P2V with VMWare -> "ERR M" Sorry, I refered to the second example in installboot(8) : http://www.openbsd

Re: P2V with VMWare -> "ERR M"

2008-02-27 Thread Fabian Heusser
_ > Zlfar M. E. Johnson > Sk}rr > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 569 5100 > http://www.skyrr.is > > http://www.skyrr.is/legal/disclaimer.txt > > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Fabian Heus

Re: P2V with VMWare -> "ERR M"

2008-02-27 Thread Úlfar M . E . Johnson
r.is/legal/disclaimer.txt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fabian Heusser Sent: 26. febrzar 2008 23:48 To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: P2V with VMWare -> "ERR M" Nick, thank you for taking the time to answer my questions. As yo

Re: P2V with VMWare -> "ERR M"

2008-02-26 Thread Fabian Heusser
Nick, thank you for taking the time to answer my questions. As you successfully detected, i have done some brute force with no luck. Thank you for your tip about dump/restore, i applied it with success. With the help of a OpenBSD live CD i managed to do some instant dump & restore over the networ

Re: P2V with VMWare -> "ERR M"

2008-02-25 Thread Nick Holland
Fabian Heusser wrote: > Hello > > I have an old box (3.6) which makes a lot of noise, so i like to > virtualize it. I made an Image with acronis and converted it with > vmware converter. > When i start the virtual machine "Loading... ERR M" is shown. (dmesg > at the bottom) > > I loaded cd36.iso

P2V with VMWare -> "ERR M"

2008-02-25 Thread Fabian Heusser
Hello I have an old box (3.6) which makes a lot of noise, so i like to virtualize it. I made an Image with acronis and converted it with vmware converter. When i start the virtual machine "Loading... ERR M" is shown. (dmesg at the bottom) I loaded cd36.iso as cdrom and at the boot prompt tried th